Wake up, Democrats.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills

It's time for Democrats to wake up to the need to get out their voters in non-presidential election years. This is where Republicans have been winning races for state legislature, governor, attorney general, and the U.S. Congress. The state legislatures, with their governors' consent, determine how redistricting is done for both their own seats and for members of Congress. They and the attorneys general determine state voting laws, and how those laws are enforced.

Allowing Republicans to win so many of these elections has landed us in the mess we're in today, with the House Republican majority and the Senate Republicans' abuse of the filibuster combining to produce a paralyzed government.

Remember 2010, when liberal intellectuals devoted most of their time to criticizing Obama for not being perfect, and...