Hopefully 2024 has put the 'unaffiliateds are secret liberal voters for xyz reasons" people to rest and we can move on to actually making people want to be registered Democrats again. Sadly voter registration is something I haven't heard being discussed among DNC candidates as a priority. Including Ken Martin and Ben Wikler.
Seems registration should be issue number 1 for us.
Hopefully 2024 has put the 'unaffiliateds are secret liberal voters for xyz reasons" people to rest and we can move on to actually making people want to be registered Democrats again. Sadly voter registration is something I haven't heard being discussed among DNC candidates as a priority. Including Ken Martin and Ben Wikler.
Seems registration should be issue number 1 for us.
A messaging change will pay dividends; frankly I could care less about registration affiliation; what I care about is actual registration and turning out; if Biden voters show up, Harris wins in 2024; that's a messaging problem for the good guys
20 states don't have partisan registration. It's not a DNC concern when you literally physically can't register as a Democrat or a Republican in TX, GA, WI, MI, etc. I'd say more important than making people want to be registered Dems, is making people want to vote for Dems. Registration is the lagging trend that follows people wanting to vote Dem or GOP, and accordingly Republicans gain when more people want to vote Republican. Can't get out of that hole by making registration "issue number 1".
But yes, unaffiliated registration continues to leave both parties in the dust, and it is heavily concentrated among young and/or non-white voters, groups that decidedly did not bail out Democrats last year.
Hopefully 2024 has put the 'unaffiliateds are secret liberal voters for xyz reasons" people to rest and we can move on to actually making people want to be registered Democrats again. Sadly voter registration is something I haven't heard being discussed among DNC candidates as a priority. Including Ken Martin and Ben Wikler.
Seems registration should be issue number 1 for us.
A messaging change will pay dividends; frankly I could care less about registration affiliation; what I care about is actual registration and turning out; if Biden voters show up, Harris wins in 2024; that's a messaging problem for the good guys
20 states don't have partisan registration. It's not a DNC concern when you literally physically can't register as a Democrat or a Republican in TX, GA, WI, MI, etc. I'd say more important than making people want to be registered Dems, is making people want to vote for Dems. Registration is the lagging trend that follows people wanting to vote Dem or GOP, and accordingly Republicans gain when more people want to vote Republican. Can't get out of that hole by making registration "issue number 1".
But yes, unaffiliated registration continues to leave both parties in the dust, and it is heavily concentrated among young and/or non-white voters, groups that decidedly did not bail out Democrats last year.