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Originally Posted by tony286
The far left are not dems they are green party and they have no power. Its a wasted vote
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If a democrat can activate the far left and get their votes he is very difficult to beat. Clinton did it and Obama did it. John Kerry and Al Gore could not. In the Gore/Kerry years there was not much turn out from the far left and those that did voted Green party/alternative candidates. In the Clinton and Obama years the green party got very few votes. In 2000 the Green party and other parties combined got about 3.5% of the vote. In 2008 they only got about 1%.
Those groups aside there are many hardcore left wing liberals who are not into the green party, but don't vote for a lot of different reasons. Getting them to the polls is not easy, but if you can do it they can be a big help putting you in office. There have been a bunch of polls that show about 10-15% of the country are hardcore conservative right wingers and about 10-15% are hardcore liberal lefties and the rest fall somewhere in the middle. The difference is the right is organized, motivated and they turn out to vote. The left . . . not so much.