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Generally, the more people vote, the more republicans lose. "Get out the vote" is an anti-republican message in effect, which republicans know and it's why they try to stop people from voting.
Instead of, you know, being electable.
The Dems have a similar thing going on. It's not "vote for me because I'm a great option", it is "vote for me or democracy dies!". If I only ever had one choice, then democracy is already dead.
Right now, it's more like:
"Here are my qualities, what I believe in (with a whole website page dedicated to my policies), my experience as a prosecutor, and why the other side is just plain not fit for office."
Here is the website mentioned above.
Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the "both sides are the same" argument.
I'm not saying Harris isn't qualified; she clearly is.
What I'm saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren't D.
These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can't tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the "Republicans" were in a local election where the candidates can't have party affiliations.
Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?
Democracy died when citizens United was passed. It can be revived though.