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I learned many years ago, through my studies at the university, that the more individuals who vote = democrats win, and the fewer individuals who vote = republicans win: and this is the main reason you have witnessed the republican party and their members try to limit and restrict the number of Americans in exercising their legal obligation to vote.trump’s latest attack is on mail-in voting, which trump, his family, his oligarch political appointees have used for years, along with absentee voting, as a means for more legal Americans to vote, which diminishes the chances of trump and other republicans winning their elections.Register to vote, ensure your name remains on the voting rolls and then vote in whatever manner your state/county allows and that you feel comfortable with. If you vote by mail, either by absentee ballot or mail-in ballot, I would take the day off and deliver your ballot in person to avoid any delays with the national mail service.I have been a poll worker for many elections in California, Minnesota and Iowa over the years, and I have seen what the Regisrar of Voter’s office personnel do to verify All voting ballots, in-person ballots, computer ballots, absentee ballots and mail-in ballots, and they do a terrific job during this verification process, as all poll workers I have worked with do.trump wants to win re-election so badly that he and his supporters will do, say, and tweet anything to ensure his victory in the polls on November 3 2020.Gerrymandering, that both the republicans and democrats have practiced and done over the years, which insured they win their respective elections have created this inertia and passage of incoherent public policies that favor a minority of citizens at the expense of the majority of citizens.I have always felt that All of the 435 U.S. congressional districts should have an equal number of registered republicans and democrats, as this would make these 435 U.S. congressional seats much more competitive, and insure that U.S. congressional representatives truly represent their constituents in their districts.Currently, it appears whoever has raised the most money, has the best deceptive advertising and can slander their opponent the best win their elections: so have elections funded publicly by having no more PACS, no more contributions of any kind, even “in-kind” contributions and no more false and misleading advertising.Trump's Absentee vs. Mail-In Ballot Spin

It means that in the money-drenched campaign environment created by Citizens United and super-PAC spending, the Democrats must tap into the wealth of their supporters in these counties and elsewhere, to fund ads and other forms of outreach in order to educate the electorate as to the truth about the Republican party. Truth and facts do not help Republicans because they espouse policies that hurt the vast majority of Americans. But they have a powerful propaganda machine at work to disguise what they really stand for.The challenge for Democratic activists is two-fold: fundraising and effective use of the funds to inform the electorate. The Koch brothers have vowed to spend something like $900 million to fund "dark money" propaganda to elect a Republican as president in 2016. Karl Rove has a list of big donors who will write large checks to his PAC. Kenneth Adelman will no doubt open his wallet as well. The Koch money, the Rove super-PAC money and the Murdoch media empire (Wall St. Journal, Fox "news") will fund and spew all manner of lies. They will claim that Republicans stand for "small government," balanced budgets and jobs (despite the fact that the last Republican administration did the opposite on each front). They will scream "Benghazi!Benghazi! Benghazi !" every time Hillary Clinton's name is mentioned. They will seek to win the election by putting put misinfomation, just as they have about President Obama.The voting pattern the question refers to suggests the solution for Democrats. The wealthy counties and communities listed have registered voters who are among the best educated people in the US. Many residents of them have Ivy League educations, or graduated from Ivy-like colleges like MIT, Amherst, etc. A lot have graduate degrees from top universities. These are intelligent, well-read people. They are well-informed. While they might personally benefit in the short run from a Republican president's policies on taxes or deregulation, they do not think it is good long-term policy to make the rich even richer and the poor even poorer (or to deny global warming, or start a war with Iran, etc.)One does not not have to be super-wealthy to be informed, of course. Austin, Texas is an example. Austin has a highly educated electorate. It is a city filled with high tech workers with advanced degrees, well-educated young people starting businesses and people associated with higher education. Austin, although a majority white community in an overwhelmingly Republican state, votes solidly Democratic. Its citizens are well-informed.Well-informed people are not science-deniers, do not fall for jingoism, do not think the earth is only 6000 years old, and do not want guns in national parks and on college campuses. If they watched an hour or so of Fox "news," or listened to a few minutes of Limbaugh, they would either laugh or be offended at the transparant propaganda spread by the media outlets who support Republican Party positions. Informed voters are offended by the nonsense about Obama being a Muslim without a real birth certificate -- propaganda that swayed a lot of poorly informed people.Poll: 51 percent of GOP primary voters think Obama born abroad - Andy Barr1 In 5 Republicans Still Think Obama The Antichrist: PollMost people who vote Republican are not ultra-wealthy, and could not afford to live in the communities cited by the report that gave rise to this question. Sadly, most people who vote Republican are voting against their own economic interests. They have been duped by a sophisticated and massively well-funded propagangda machine.What can Democratic activists do about this? Effectively spread the truth.The truth is that Republican policies benefit only a tiny percetage of Americans, far less than 1%. Take the GOPs position on repealing the estate tax, for example, which the Fox-WSJ-Limbaugh-Hannity-Savage propaganda machine has labeled the "death tax": the estate tax only applies to estates worth over $5.43 million and even then, it applies only after $5.43 million passes tax-free to heirs. How many estates is that? Less than 2 out of 1000 estates. Yet many Republican voters are convinced that this death tax applies to all and is threatening "family farms." When pressed to name a single family farm lost to the estate tax, Republicans could not name one. Here is a quote from a recent news story you can look up:Neil Harl, an Iowa State University economist whose tax advice has made him a household name among Midwest farmers, said he had searched far and wide but had never found a case in which a farm was lost because of estate taxes. ''It's a myth,'' Mr. Harl said. Even one of the leading advocates for repeal of estate taxes, the American Farm Bureau Federation, said it could not cite a single example of a farm lost because of estate taxes.While that is one one example, it is emblematic. The GOP is a vehicle for giving the already fabulously wealthy even more privileges and more tax breaks. Republicans do not balace budgets and are not for "small government." That is simply factual. But many voters have no idea what Republicans really stand for.Democrats can start by revealing the truth about what Republicans claim to stand for. Is it true that Republicans are for "small government" and balanced budgets? We have a recent case study. The last GOP president came into office with the US budget in surplus -- the first in decades. His new treasury secretary, life-long Republican and former Alcoa chairman, Paul O'Neill, was positively giddy about using the surpluses to fix the finances of programs like Social Security and pay down natuional debt. But what did Bush-Cheney do? Long before the 9-11 attacks justified increased spending, they pushed through a massive tax cut that overwhelmingly benefitted the wealthiest Americans. The result: the budget swung from surplus to long-term structural deficit. O'Neill complained to Cheney, citing Republican platfom language about federal deficits, and was promplty fired. Read the book he co-wrote with Ron Suskind, "The Price of Loyalty."The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill: Ron Suskind: 9780743255462: Amazon.com: BooksCheney said "It's our turn" and "Deficits don't matter." So much for fiscal conservatism.Bush also waged the foolish and poorly conceived war in Iraq (sold to the country with lies about Saddam being complicit in 9-11 and having weapons of mass destruction). He pressed for and signed the give-away to Big Pharma called the prescription drug benefit plan, and ultimately he presided over the bailout of the "too big to fail" financial institutions whose reckless gambling was rewarded by bailouts. Massive deficits followed. It will take many years to crawl out. Fox "news" likes to blur this as being Obama's fault, but it all happened before he was elected, much less inaugurated.The Republicans usually hold a coronation for the candidate with the biggest fundraising machine. If they do that again, Jeb Bush will lead the ticket. He has a big fundraising advantage. He embraces the policies that will continue to coddle the already vastly wealthy. Even though he is more interested in policy than his brother and appears to be a deeper thinker, he has assembled the same team of advisors his brother employed.But even if another candidate knocks off Jeb Bush in the Republican primaries, he -- and it will be a "he" -- will be firmly controlled by the Big Money that demands more tax breaks and government largess for the already extremely well-off (and loosening of the weak regulations on the Big Banks, more tax breaks for the oil industry, more denying the realities of climate change, deeper cuts in programs that help the poorest survive, etc.) Some of the candidates seem to want more wars, even a war with Iran.Therein lies a big opportunity for Democrats: educate people as to what Republicans stand for and what they do once in office.Well-informed voters will be offended by the propaganda and lies about global warming, the attacks on science, the foolishness about needing more and more guns everywhere, like in bars, on campuses, and in parks. They will want a higher minimum wage and a tax system that does not allow a Mitt Romey to pay 13.9% (in the single year he released) while his staff members and barber paid at higher rates. Well-informed people will also know what happens when a Republican gets elected -- and if a majority of voters are well-informed next time, they are unlikely to want the last Republican president's brother elected in 2016.Obama hasn't effectively rebutted the other side's lies. Apparently wanting to stay above the fray, he hasn't used the presidential bully pulpit in the manner that he could have. As a result, Congressional elections went against him. Presidential elections are different, though. More voters come out. Gerrymandering isn't a factor since what counts is total votes in whole states, not votes withing weirdly concocted congressional district boundaries. The next Democratic nominee must recognize the power and the reach of the Republicans' propaganda machine and counter it effectively. Democratic activists have little choice but to tap the wealth of their supporters to try to counter the onslaught of lies that is coming. A well-informed electorate should be the Democrats' goal. Rational votes will follow.

When progressive Democrats take over, will they ban and confiscate guns?A2A. Progressive means a lot of different things to different people; so I am going to substitute your question using the word Democratic Party.I literally know one person who wants all guns banned. In fact, the only reference to the term confiscation that I ever recall was from President Trump, during his Oval Office meeting that was televised right after the Parkland shooting.[1]I am a liberal, and have been a Democrat for a long time. I consistently hear two things that Democrats want regarding gun control, and I agree with both.Universal background checks: No exceptions for gun shows. [2] [3] The NICs system should be readily available. There are also states that have passed background checks for the private sales, and they are not all blue states, though most are. Iowa is one example.[4] Nevada and New Mexico both passed private sales laws, and they are swing states.Red Flag laws: Laws that guarantee due process, to prevent the mentally ill from getting and keeping weapons. A number of states have passed red flag laws (Florida and CO are the latest). [5] I personally think that if we want to guarantee due process, then we should enact a universal red flag law across all states. I am willing to compromise on universal conceal carry for universal background checks.The irony about really red Florida is that an all GOP statehouse and Governor passed the new very strict gun regulations, including increasing the age to 21 and adding a red flag law.[6][7] Many counties have closed the gun show loophole, and added waiting periods as well.So, as a general matter, there are other conservative states that definitely have passed more comprehensive gun safety laws, so this isn't just a liberal concern.If you look at the most important issues for the Democratic Party, I consistently hear the same things in order of priority:Healthcare is #1: Our Healthcare system is unaffordable and unsustainable. We must move to UHC in the US. I won't belabor the point because I have written extensively on this subject. If anyone is interested, please join the US Health Care Policy Space. We have many experts in the area of healthcare posting information daily.Campaign Finance Reform: The US House introduced the We The People Act[8] as their first bill in the Democratic majority Congress to take back our democracy from the special interests. One of the main reasons that we have a serious healthcare crisis is because Congress is literally owned by the healthcare industy lobby that spends 500MM annually to buys and bribe our politicians.[9] That's one of the reasons that almost no Democratic candidates are accepting any PAC money. The healthcare lobby makes sure that big pharma keep our drugs unaffordable and our insurance companies making billions, while adding nothing to the quality of healthcare.[10]Environmental Protection: Here is the basic party platform[11] We want more clean energy and green jobs, reducing CO2 emissions, and clean air, water, land, and not a rollback of environmental protections.Reasonable Gun Safety Regulations: The details of this are itemized above.Democrats are actually very reasonable, and really take so much heat, based on a lot of disinformation and political hatred.We are the party that makes progress and wants all Americans to move forward, not backwards.Footnotes[1] Trump says take guns first and worry about 'due process second' in White House gun meeting[2] Universal background check - Wikipedia[3] Gun show loophole - Wikipedia[4] Gun show loophole - Wikipedia[5] Red flag law - Wikipedia[6] CCW Reciprocity Map[7] Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine[8] Text - H.R.1 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): For the People Act of 2019[9] Lobbying Spending Database Health, 2018[10] Health insurers spent big money on lobbying in early 2017[11] Environment - Democrats