Duh.
>
> But I think people are too dismissive of non-voters as a
> resource. It takes work to do outreach, but a large pool of
> those non-voters are not apathetic necessarily but recent
> immigrants who just need help getting connected. American
> history is littered with examples of the explosive effect of
> new immigrant non-voters finally hitting their political
> stride and having large impacts on elections.
That might have been true with European immigrants at the turn of the centuries who had been exposed working class movements in the Old World/ My experience with today's immigrants is that they tend to be conservative, especially on social issues, like women's or gay rights, race issues or even economic issues; many of them are rabidly anti-communist.
Wojtek