How do we build a base? Do we go after Liberal voters or do we go after the folks who don't vote? I'm for reaching out to non-voters, which would require a completely differnet kind of election platform.
I agree with Stockholm that, in general, trying to persuade longtime non-voters to get involved is labour-intensive and rarely worth the investment.
But another category of "non-voters" are young people, those not yet old enough to vote or not yet either engaged or turned off. Remember the poster (can't recall who it was) during the campaign who told us about her neice (I think) who organized lots of other young people to support Jonah Schein? I think the young people are the future and have much more openness to the NDP message about social justice, environmental concerns, worker protection and much more. THAT should be where significant energy is spent, IMO.