If we can control more state houses we will draw congressional lines for the new census in 2020.

Governorships and Senate races (and presumably the Presidency) are less of a challenge.

But we should start now planning for 2020 when the new census is done. When the lines get redrawn we might be able to take back state houses.

Two Senators per state was a compromise to give more power to the slave states. And the House has always favored rural over urban. So absent a Constitutional change, this is permanent. Small population states have no reason to tamper with their advantages. But the 41% of registered voters who did not vote are not necessarily all concentrated in urban areas.

As for 40% sitting out presidential elections and 60% sitting out mid-terms, that's the norm. And certainly not a new problem. Voter suppression accounts for some of that. Like you point out, not all are concentrated in urban areas. So, what should be done about that? How do Dems engage the disengaged?

Engaging the dis-engaged.

Is it due to ignorance of the issues, or voter suppression, or inability to vote?

Studies show that likelihood of voting rises with income, so I feel that suppression and obstacles to voting play a big part. So does education. But that is the why of non-voting, not the how of encouraging engaging.

And the how is what we talk about here.

But that's how california gets many liberal policies.

It's done at local levels and other areas adopt it and ends up being state law.