The most important thing we can do in the remaining 10 days is get out the vote.

It is a well-established principle that people will keep a commitment made to someone else more often than ones made only to themselves.

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Don’t assume people who appear to oppose Trump will definitely make the time to go vote.

Some just don’t see it as important enough. Some will put it off and then not follow through.

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There are disarming ways to bring it up.

Could be no more than casually saying:

“Can’t believe the election is a week away. I need to get my vote in. You voted yet?”

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And if the person says they haven’t, adding:

“Okay, let’s both make sure we do. This one is too important. Deal?”

There is a psychological effect of voicing a commitment to another person.

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I fear that there are more people than we think who might not follow through on voting because they haven’t followed how it works this year and what they would have to do.

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And if we fall short, I have a feeling we’ll be in for an agonizing four years of “He/She Hated Trump... But Then He/She Stayed Home” stories.

Four years of slowly learning that people we absolutely assumed were going to vote somehow didn’t.

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Bring it up. We need every vote. It can be casual and nonchalant.

Commitments work. Even when conversational.

We need to crush turnout. Even in the bluest of blue states as it is in swing states.

Get Out the Vote. That’s the priority.

GOTV, GOTV, GOTV.

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