by Lynnell Mickelsen
Yeah, I know. I'm a little late to the post-election reflection party. Elections wear me out. I needed a few days to recover, catch up on sleep, laundry, grocery-shopping, bill-paying, dog-poop scooping and all the other life essentials that get lost in the final weeks of campaigns
Anyhow, I spent Election Day getting out the vote by walking up and down Lake Street in Minneapolis with another volunteer, working the aisles at K-Mart, Payless Shoes, barber shops, hair salons, MacDonald's, you name it. We'd ask people if they were planning to vote or if they knew where to vote. If they didn't know where to vote, we called in their address to someone at Keith Ellison's campaign headquarters, who looked it up on a computer.
Getting out the vote isn't for everybody. But I was raised Baptist, which means I was trained early on to shift any encounter, no matter how minor, into an opportunity to witness for Our Lord. As a youth, I hid or pretended to be sick when it was time for my group to hand out tracts, I hated it. But as an adult, I seem to have channeled all my old Baptist training into political campaigns. I love doorknocking and getting out the vote, in part, because I believe one way to heal this country is to find people who have given up on politics and ask for their vote again. Face-to'"face. One-on-one. Remind them that they matter; that their vote counts and that they have a place at the table.
I don't know if we actually got anyone to vote on Tuesday. But I do know that most people liked being asked. I'm a middle-aged mom, so a lot of the young guys hanging out on the street corners, who can look and act so tough, now remind me of my own teenage sons and their friends. You start talking and laughing with them and they almost instantly become such big sweethearts. So for me, it was a wonderful day of walking around, talking and reminding people that their vote can make a difference.
And it reminded me why I'm glad to be a Democrat. Because I was pretty sure that the GOP wasn't working the aisles of the K-Mart on Lake Street. And the Independence party probably wasn't doing it either. If you're a Democrat, you often end up working across race and class lines. It's not always easy. It's not always comfortable. But it's good work. On Tuesday, it was fun work. And it's work I believe in.
We lost the governor's race in Minnesota by less than two percentage points---or 22,523 votes. The Independence party candidate, Peter Hutchinson, took six percent or 22,523 votes, the majority of which would probably have gone to the Democrats if he hadn't run. Peter has become our local version of Ralph Nader, with the Independence party playing the role of the Greens. (Giving Republicans Elections Every November).
And like the Greens of yesteryear, Peter and his crew insist that their role had nothing to do with giving us four more years of a Republican governor. They proudly claim to be the smartest people in the state with the best ideas.
As I get older, I'm realizing that effective political parties are about more than being the smartest people with the best ideas. It's about being part of a tribe---and I mean that in a good way. It's about relationships and alliances that take years and years to build up. It's not about individual candidates, it's about belonging to something bigger and more sustaining.
Being a Democrat is like belonging to a huge extended family. There's people I adore and there's the crazies that show up to every event and drive me nuts. Various factions and members bug me. Sometimes we fight like cats and dogs. We wage fierce battles in the primaries. But in the end, we're all Democrats. We're family. And as I get older, I like that.
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