Are there any national Dem efforts to boost Hispanic and youth turnout?

[Funtatlaguy]

Just wondering if there are web sites that I could go to in efforts to help boost these two crucial Dem voting blocs.

[manor321]

1. Why do we even have to?

At some point people themselves are responsible. If Hispanics don't vote under this Nazi regime, they never will.

Young people watch and laugh at Colbert's jokes and Maher's jokes, but don't show up to vote.

[JHB]

2. Um.... because we want to win elections, of course

If you don't understand that you're as bad as what you're complaining about.

Go out, find a way to connect, find what will "hook" them, and use that hook to get them to the polls. That's how ward heelers get the name, wearing out their heels to make sure people show up and vote for their candidates.

Whether it should be that way is irrelevant. It is that way, it's always been that way, and when people forget that it's that way we lose ground.

[Funtatlaguy]

6. Exactly. Not everyone has the time to follow politics like many here.

They have two jobs, several children, and maybe even parents or grandchildren to care for.
Health concerns and other issues that take up their time.
But, if we have the resources to reach out to them, they are groups that will hear and be receptive to our message.

[uponit7771]

4. Engage those communities, after seeing Steph Ruhles show the other day I'm not confident this is

... being done at an adequate level.

[uponit7771]

3. K&R, after seeing Stephenie Ruhles show the other day I was blow the hell away with the lack of ....

... outreach on the college campus they were on.

There are so many issues that affect college students that dems care about but the students looked disengaged.

The students lack of engagement looks to be in part because of lack of outreach.

I was wondering how much it would take to saturate that campus with a pro student message that would energize a movement there.

I was watching ways the Russians would stir crap up in countries and noticed they usually started with college aged students.

[EffieBlack]

10. A tremendous amount of outreach is being done at the local level and on college campuses

It has to be done locally, not on a national basis. There's a huge effort taking place at the local level with funding and support from the national and state parties. Colleges and universities ARE being saturated with information, activities, engagement efforts, speakers, etc.

These students that you saw on television aren't clueless and disconnected because they haven't been reached out to. Some people are just clueless and disconnected and all of the outreach in the world won't get to them. It's usually not until something terrible happens to them personally that they finally wake up and get their butts in gear.

I'm working with a lot of student groups at the local level and they're doing everything they can to reach their friends and classmates - pulling out all the stops - and are very frustrated with people like this, but there's not much more they can do. Every generation has pockets of kids like this - we did when I was their age and and at some point, we just had to stop trying to get water from a stone and focus on people who had at least a piece of a clue.

I wonder about these kids' parents. Who raised such self-involved and uninterested people?

[uponit7771]

13. This was in orange county California, is this were you're at? thx in advance

[NewJeffCT]

15. Yet, national Republicans are pulling out of at least some of Orange County

and their support of Mimi Walters there. So, something good must be happening there.

[Dulcinea]

14. This.

I volunteer with local voter registration & GOTV organizations, & my favorite places to go are high schools & colleges. It's been my experience that young people are engaged & motivated.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. How about boosting white suburban female turnout?

Quite a few did not bother to vote.

[Funtatlaguy]

7. Sure. Boost all of our coalition. Although, polling shows women ARE very energized.

The boost we are hoping for is educated white suburban women that are independent and swing back and forth between the two parties.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. "The boost we are hoping for is educated white suburban women"

And this is where that focus needs to be.

I always see many posts here on DU excoriating the black and hispanic vote and demanding more and more outreach while ignoring the white suburban women. Hoards go into black neighborhoods trying to get more and more blood out of turnips and I am literally getting at least half a dozen or more robocalls A DAY from phone banks... and I live in a part of the city that literally already has the highest voter turnout in the city - including during the typical low-turnout (10 - 11%) primaries.

There seems to be a big disconnect.

Sorry for the rant but it is really bugging me.

[EffieBlack]

16. Until white suburban women become reliable Democratic voters, we can't just boost theiir

turnout without much more specific targeting and hope that will help us. It's just as likely we're turning out Trump voters.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I'm just trying to make sure that they are even being asked

to be voters because certainly, the entire black community can't keep being the main ones to be targeted to come out to vote and then blamed when there is a drop-off, for whatever reason, while whole other communities are ignored. And they certainly don't have all the challenges that we have just to vote.

[EffieBlack]

19. I hear you and agree

But more persuasion has to be done on the front end before we just go out and ask them to vote since we need to be sure they're going to vote Democratic before we try to get them out to vote so we're not doing the Republicans' GOTV for them.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. Well ain't that the damn truth!

[EffieBlack]

8. Yes

The outreach is being organized and carried out locally with funding and support of the national party.

[Funtatlaguy]

9. Good. Any web sites looking for contributions?

[WeekiWater]

11. DNC ANNOUNCES NEW IWILLVOTE CAMPAIGN TO REACH 50 MILLION VOTERS IN 2018

Today, the Democratic National Committee is announcing the launch of IWillVote – an unprecedented new campaign with four initiatives: Commit to Vote; Voter Registration; Voter Education and Protection; and Get-Out-The-Vote. Under the IWillVote program, the DNC, in partnership with state parties and organizations, aims to reach 50 million voters from now until November to engage, educate, and mobilize them to vote for Democrats up and down the ticket. The following are some of our initial partners who will support our IWillVote efforts: ASPIRE PAC, Blue Future, BOLD PAC, CBC PAC, Collective PAC, College Democrats of America, Flippable, Future Forum, High School Democrats of America, Latino Victory Fund, Mobilize America, National Conference of Democratic Mayors and Democratic mayors from more than 30 cities, National Democratic Redistricting Committee, PODER PAC, Swing Left, Young Democrats of America.

DNC

A big part of this is targeted toward the youth.

Unidos US

MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH OUR VOTE

The vote is the key to our future. Since 2008, UnidosUS has played an important role in ramping up the voting power of the Latino community. From voter outreach training programs and community canvassing, to launching a mobile voter registration app, we have helped mobilize and register over 600,000 eligible voters.

UnidosUS

For The Promotion Of Latino Leadership

CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE
Developing the Next Generation of Latino Leaders

Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute

MOBILIZE LATINOS

naleo.org

There are currently a lot of national organizations organizing what you mention.

[Funtatlaguy]

12. Great information. Thank you.