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So glad you wrote this. I always recommend, especially to younger/newer voters--Not sure who to vote for? Which topic or two is bothering you the most? Planned parenthood? Taxes? Health care? Your employer's health? Your student debt? Pick just one or two topics and find your party or candidate's position on that. There's time later to figure out the rest. In other words, and bizarre as it seems to write it, better to be a one-issue voter than not vote at all.

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Stoehr: "The Times’ David Leonhardt did the homework. He found that voter turnout has remained largely the same in midterms and presidential election years, despite the rise of repressive voter ID laws since 2012. That means that voter suppression laws have had little affect, and that Democrats lose because people just don’t vote."

Not necessarily.

It may be that in recent years Democratic voters' growing intent and attempts to vote have been more or less evenly countered by Republicans' increasing voter suppression efforts.

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