It's said that this election will be won simply on turnout. Midterm elections generally get more voters to the polls from the party not in power, since they are the ones more likely to want change; the party in power is usually too complacent to vote. This effect magnifies the minority party's power and risks an upset.

The following video is a reminder of what will happen if Democratic turnout is low, or if Democrats register “protest votes.” These are not made-up worries. The Republican leadership has been promising to roll back the progress made this term by the Democrats. That's their agenda. To move us back. This is a reminder of what things were like at the time those Republican leaders remember so fondly and want to return to:

And while we're talking about things to remember, if you don't recall all that was done by the Democrats so far this term, here's a reminder about that, too: