It should be a warning sign when your path to victory involves getting as few people to vote as possible.
Conversely, it should also be a warning sign when your party relies on voters that are too lazy and/or uninformed to vote in years when a president isn't on the ballot.
Maybe you should actually give them reasons to turn out, instead of running on "we're not the other guys" and acting dumbfounded when that message SOMEHOW doesn't fire people up to vote? But I know, I know, it's far more easier to just whine about those lazy blah people.
Agreed (to my amazement). The GOP is slowly (very, very slowly) picking up steam with black voters because the Democratic Party have more or less taken their votes for granted.