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Midterm because historically that has been true. which means that over half of americans choose not to vote in a midterm election like the one coming up in two week. and our whole point is to get out and organize at a grass roots basis to talk to people about the issues they care the most about. and to make it -- to give them all the information, not just on the issues, but also where to vote, what they have to do to be registered -- to register, to engage them as much as possible and make it possible for them to participate in a completely different level. and that's what we expect to happen ...

That's what we're trying to do in state after state, city after city. >> part of what i have seen around the country is that afscme is talking about a day to day, door to door operation. i know that all of us will be working with you all around the 50th assassination of martin luther king in memphis and that was a afscme boycott or strike that he was there for. and using that to galvanize and mobilize. but to do it on the grass roots basis. 50 years after dr. king's assassination, 50 years after the sanitation strikers there in memphis which was the reason he came, we are confronted with the s...