Posted on 09/08/2010 1:08:51 PM PDT by earlJam
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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/09/american-university-expert-democratic-turnout-lowest-in-80-years/1
Let’s hope the trend continues through November.
Just what they want the GOP to think is going to happen.
Rats rarely appear during the day. It gets dark much earlier in November so we’ll see about the mid-term turnout.
WOW!
“Gans looked at 35 primaries held before Sept. 1 and found that 4 million more Republicans voted than Democrats — statistical proof of the “enthusiasm gap” that pollsters and pundits have been talking about.”
So how do they determine the meaning of “likely voter”?
Do they go back 80 years and check for those stats?
The stink from incumbent dim-bulb-crats was so bad that even the dead people that normally vote in the primaries couldn’t stand it.
Looks like the tingle-up-the-leg is plum gone out of ‘em...
Where’s that Obama Youth Army?
Where are all those guilty white boomers?
Where’s that mindless African-American vote?
Where are all those elderly FDR democrats?
Right, only 44 % of the people who voted in the State Primaries this year were Democraps, but that was just a collective feint to make Republicans think they won't vote in the November elections.. Brilliant!!
It would appear that at least some of them have consciences.
I had a family member tell me after Obama won that the Republicans are finished, they’ll never be in the majority again.
How sweet it is.
A lot of lefties are disaffected because they think 0bama and the dems are corporatist stooges. Some lefties even think 0bama was a trojan horse created by right-wing corporate interests. No, I’m not kidding.
I was only expressing my hope that fewer democrats come out to vote in November. Also, I hope the ones who do show up vote out the Dems.
I dont think there is a single standard among pollsters. Gallup has developed a screen of seven questions which its research shows strongly predict whether an individual will vote. Too bad it only uses it occasionally. Most Gallup polls are of adults, not likely voters.
Ras has his own technique.
We must not get comfortable in this.
They are setting high expectations in order to have some kind of in.
I guess Obama was a fad.
Like all things young people do, once you’re out, you’re out.
I think that a good chunk of Obama’s base isn’t paying much attention and feels like it got its big win in 08. In their minds they’ve proven their point and now their job is done.
The left can blame itself for creating a culture of such short attention spans.
Is that Oprah?
Obviously not the result of shame as leftists are utterly shameless! So apparently blacks are just not interested in voting this time around. GOOD!!! Let’s hope that doesn’t change. But don’t be shocked to see Hussein invent some sort of phony racial upheaval between now and November 2nd. Perhaps the left will make up a story of some white guy taking a shot at our fearless reader. Or racist hate mail will be “discovered.” Stick around. NOTHING the left does can be considered surprising.
You have a very good point. Makes sense to me.
However, if it looks like the Dems are going to loose big, and it turns out to be false, it will continue to undermine the working class' faith in the voting process. Once that faith is gone, what becomes the only recourse?
"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ..."
I read on the American University site that while the Republican number represents a big spike, the Democrat number is nothing new, but rather the continuation of a linear decline going back to their peak in 1966.
The USA Today article also mentions the fact that the percentage of voters who self-identify as Democrats has also been on a steady decline for decades.
How sweet it is.
In 1993 I had a family member tell me that Al Gore was the most ethical man in government.
In 2008 he told me that global warming was real!
Some PhD's never learn.
Here in our county you have to declare either republican or democrat...
Lots of folks around here have gone independent. That means they don’t get to vote in the primaries.
Voter turn out in a democrat stronghole of Cuyahoga County? Yesterday was ....17%.
A county executive and 11 council members will replace three commissioners
“The only explanation is apathy. This voter turnout is so disappointing. If people are interested enough to vote for something this important, will they pay attention in the future? If not, that gives an opportunity to those who would take advantage of the system,” he said.
Some blamed the light turnout partly on the unusual day-after-a-holiday election.
“There’s no excuse...You had the opportunity to vote by mail for 30 days. How hard is it to do that?....I hate to make a sermon. But in other countries, people have risked their loves to vote. In this country, we don’t understand or appreciate that privilege,” he said.
http://www.wkyc.com/news/politics_govt/politics_article.aspx?storyid=147428&catid=130
I think he is dead wrong on this one. The low voter turnout was people were or are claiming independent...and that means we can’t vote in the primaries. It is not apathy, it is the regulations that are harming this county.
Yep. The American Idol crowd is bored already with the Precedent. All that "Hope & Change" stuff is just so 'last season's fashions', you know? Besides, they already won, and Obama's got the job now. What's the panic?
Most of them won't even begin noticing that the 2012 elections are coming until they're beat over the head with non-stop commercials from the DNC.
The 2010 mid-terms? Puhleeeeze. How boring is that?
Don't even bother them until there's something really important to vote for, like legalizing marijuana or something.
Man, that is interesting data. I guess as a former Democrat, I've got more company than I was aware of. Excellent.
...and a crappy link it was there earl.
[ A lot of lefties are disaffected because they think 0bama and the dems are corporatist stooges. Some lefties even think 0bama was a trojan horse created by right-wing corporate interests. No, I’m not kidding. ]
You should feed those fears in them by suggesting that Obama’s rise was orchestrated by That rascal Karl Rove.
URLs don’t automatically show up as links when posted in an original post like the do in replies.
And I forget how to do the html thing.
You’ll have to copy and paste.
Which means ACORN will be running rampant.
They can’t win if they don’t cheat.
Keep an eye on this.
Of course, quite a few of the “voters” who “turn out” have voted in every election of the past 100, so...
I heard that many democrat voters are only voting 3-4 times this year instead of the average 6 times.
Only a small fraction of them are dead this time too.
Great news, but we can’t be complacent. We have to keep working very hard and organizing, right through election day.
And once the Republicans are in power, the REAL work begins - to keep them from RINOing out.
The Youth Army is still training in the ghetto shooting each other.
The boomers are praying to God that their bank accounts (or what’s left of them) don’t get wiped out.
The mindless African Americans are still cheering him on, waiting for more money from his ‘stash’ and watching television.
The FDR democrats are likely in shell shock over what the Democrat party has become.
Bwahahahaha. I wonder what the population was 80 years ago compared to today. Talk about apathy among the dimoKKKRATS.
I know. If I had got to your thread early enough, I would have put the link in there for you. I just don't do it after several posts have already been made.
Nevermind my previous post. cruise_missile put the link up for you. Thanks cm.
Thx
Well, I'll have to admit Oboma did wonders for the bankers and wall street brokers. They're the only ones raking in the cash. The rest of America is broke.
Politics is just leaning over and getting your butt kicked, again and again.
I remember Rush warning after the “Republican revolution”, we have to go out there and educate. Because the people will go right back to voting Democrat if they don’t understand our basic principles.
PS That Rolling Stone cover - want to bet the artist still believes it to be true?
Would YOU want to be associated with these people? The welfare queens, homos, drug addicts, felons, illegals, rabid pro-aborts, communists, socialists, muslim terrorists, violent union thugs,.....etc. Name any socially dysfunctional group, and they'll be part of the democrat base.
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