Labor Day weekend is here Most Americans are not political geeks. They don’t spend their mornings writing things like this, or reading things like this. They don’t stay up late at night generating charts trying to get politicos higher up the food chain to address turnout anomalies that could help them win up and down the ballot. (UNA stands for UNAffiliated voter.) Most Americans don’t really pay attention to the fall elections until after Labor Day. Nor do they pay attention to crucial downballot races that have much more impact on their daily lives than the presidential contest. LOLGOP suggests they do, and you do: 🚨IT’S TIME TO THROW EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT DOWNBALLOT🚨 This is part of our Downballot for Democracy mission. It’s basically Labor Day. That means Election Season for most Americans, who avoid politics better than they do COVID, has finally begun. Of course, this particular election—with its 34 felony convictions, Republican-on-Republican shooting, and miraculous elevation of Kamala Harris to the top of the ticket—has attracted more attention than most presidential races. And the surprising result of all this mishegas is that Democrats are pumped. But what’s depressing as hell is that all the joy for the top of the ticket isn’t helping downballot candidates. Instead, it’s actually hurting them. That’s what Run for Something‘s Amanda Litman told the great Greg Sargent on his Daily Blast podcast earlier this month. And no one would know better than our patron saint of Reverse Coattails, who has worked with hundreds of young, progressive downballot…