https://www.dailykos.com/news/GottaVote News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:36:58 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 15:36:58 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/6/12/1095150/-What-s-the-Matter-with-dKos <p>Unlike the people profiled in <em>What's the Matter with Kansas</em>, by Thomas Frank, Kossacks are not fooled by Republican Party propaganda into not voting in their own interests. We are, it seems, fooled by our own internal propaganda into not <strong>acting</strong> in our own interests. For all of the great discussions of the evils of the GOP (and also the evils of anti-Progressive Democrats), for all the support for better candidates, Occupy Wall Street, and other important initiatives, we uniformly take our eyes off the prize in self-congratulation about how Progressive and enlightened we are.</p> <p>What prize is that, you might be wondering? <a href="http://www.gottavote.org/en/?choose-state=true">Get Out The Vote</a>. Actually winning elections in the worst climate of voter suppression since the end of legal Jim Crow.</p> <p>How do I know that, you might demand? The response to a Diary Entry about the Obama campaign's Web site for countering voter suppression, <a href="http://www.gottavote.org/en/?choose-state=true">GottaVote.org</a>.</p> rss@dailykos.com (Mokurai) Elections GottaVote ObamaforAmerica Recommended VoterSuppression _1095150 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:00:05 +0000