I will never forget the white hot rage that filled my 17-year-old body when Jesse Ventura got elected by college students because of his cool commercials (said college students overlooked the fact that he a major part of his platform was cutting college funding). I was a mere couple of months away, and it was so awful…

It’s too hard to get into most apartments these days, they’re secured.

My rule is: if you knock on my door and aren’t holding a pizza, the door stays closed.

Where in Texas?  I voted in Dallas county this weekend and there were ~10 uncontested races for a Democrat, and only 1 for a Republican.

If it’s any consolation, I have voted in every election since and before then, including in very local ones! But I think I recall being so angry at Andrew Cuomo that I missed 2014 entirely. Might as well be forthright.

Plus canvassers never go to apartments/condos, where more voting youths are likely to live.

That is depressing here in Oklahoma, but at least it’s getting better. There might as well not have been Democratic leadership here a few years ago, but the Frontier Coalition and people like Anna Langthorn have started to turn things around. 

There are three houses with Cruz signs and EIGHT with Beto signs.

I’m crossing my fingers HARD for Beto. You guys really deserve better representation than Cruz. I was heartbroken when my best friend and her partner moved to Texas a few months ago, but I’m consoling myself with the fact that they will be two more blue votes. Best of luck next week!!!

Kudos, and I’m glad that turnout in early voter turnout is high in your district.

I think it would be one of the best things in the world right now to have Texas turn blue! I had a few Republicans only, but they were judges (and they got left blank).

I knocked on doors for a couple of hours Saturday and only one person answered. But i knocked on doors this spring for a local county election and we saw a MASSIVE increase in early voter turn out in my district. So it does work but it’s a lot of work.

I’m glad to see the Dems letting fewer seats go unopposed, no matter how bleak the odds. I was amazed during the AL special election when I learned that Sessions ran unopposed in 2014. A Senate seat, and the Dems didn’t even bother.

This year marks 10 years since my first election and I we’ve never had a viable democratic candidate in Tennessee. This year I got to vote for 3 plus 2 more for local elections that don’t carry a party affiliation. 

I hope that the Democrats are going door-to-door to visit young people, to encourage them to vote.

Fine. I’ll cut you a deal. I will drop $20 into is campaign right now, but if he loses, you need to drop $20 into his 2020 bid. 

I’m in Texas and early voted the first day polls were open. I have NEVER seen a line when I go to early vote, but this time I had to wait 30 minutes. Also I’m quite glad I voted on paper with the questionable things with the voting machines (and I never vote straight ticket anyway, rather check off each one)

NO.  We need him first.  You can have him in 2028.

Oklahoma has some Republican incumbents whose opponents are Independents. Which upsets me that no Democrats stepped up in a time that they really could make a difference.

Let him serve a few terms in Texas and then run for president, and then he can rack up all those sweet Texas electoral votes!