Need ‘more boots on the ground’
By Ronald J. Hansen | The Republic
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Democrats in Arizona and across the country have made it clear they are eagerly awaiting an opportunity to vote him and other Republicans out of office.
Democrats here have pointed to a number of indicators of their increased activism in the Trump era — a growing number of political groups, big letter-writing campaigns, and huge turnouts at town-hall meetings and at rallies to protest or advocate for policies coming out of Washington, D.C., and the state Capitol.
But the energy is hard to detect in one key measure of political power: voter registration.
