Q: Is there anything else you’d like us to know about mobilizing the overseas vote?
Julia Bryan: Everyone can be an advocate for overseas voting! [S]omething you may not know is that the more connections someone has to other Americans, and the more often they hear that Americans they know are voting, the more likely they are to vote.
That means that if you live overseas, we hope you won’t be shy in posting online or talking to colleagues and friends that you’ll be voting this year.
Your posts will probably reach someone in the States who knows someone else overseas. Even talking about it with local friends is a good idea. You never know what they may tell their other American friends who say they’re not voting this year!
Christina on the need for an organization like Spread the Vote: “Never before in the history of America have we had to organize to get people IDs.”
On the importance of their #TeenTheVote effort: “Every year 1 million teenagers become eligible to vote in Texas. We’re working to get every high school in the state involved.”
#BlueWaveInterview
Check out our interview with @gdlittledorf and Bob Wilson of Illinois, who spoke to me about doing the essential work on #ElectionDay: working the polls.
This @nymag article theorizes why Trump is focused on Russia. Frightening in its implications.
I’ve pulled out some salient quotes in the replies, but encourage you to read it. nymag.com/daily/intellig…
“He wants a world he intuitively understands: of individual nations, in which the most powerful are free to bully the others.”
“He believes in diplomacy as the meeting of strongmen in secret, doing deals, in alpha displays of strength — not endless bullshit sessions at multilateral summits.”