Obama's Great Big 2014 Problem

American Thinker ^ | 01/12/2013 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Never mind the propaganda media's barrage of epitaphs for conservatism and the GOP, the midterm elections are shaping up to heavily favor the purportedly down-and-out opposition to "fundamental change" in America.

Conn Carroll of the DC Examiner analyzes just which Senate seats will be possible pick-ups for the GOP: ...a total of seven Democratic Senators from states that Mitt Romney carried in 2012 are up for election in 2014. And six of those Senators (Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mary Landrieu, D-La., Max Baucus, D-Mont., Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and Jay Rockefeler, D-W.V.) hail from states that Romney carried by double-digits.

But it is not just the particular seats that will be up that makes 2014 a potential disaster for the Dems, it is the varying nature of midterm and general election voters:

As Thomas Schaller notes, this spells doom for Democrats in 2014:

"It's no mystery why Democrats generally perform better in presidential years while Republicans tend to excel in midterm cycles: Lower midterm turnouts tend to skew the electorate toward older, white and/or more affluent voters. Given the growing cleavage in recent decades between partisan preferences of white and non-white voters, cyclic differences in racial composition are particularly important.

And, Schaller notes, this is particularly troublesome for Democrats at the state level, since "all but nine of the 48 governors with four-year terms are elected in non-presidential cycles, as are the substantial majority of state legislators."

[A'elian' nation]

That is assuming that the Okenyan’s low-information minions read. Now these idiots do watch the late night shows, but Obama won’t be on them during the mid-terms since it’s not about him.

My thesis is that these voters turn out massively during the presidential years to keep the freebies flowing. It is all ObamaStash. They don’t bother to vote in mid-terms, because they do not understand our republican form of government.

Besides, voting once every four years by these scum is about the most work you can get out of them.

[ExCTCitizen]

Lets see ...didn’t we say that we would capture the SENATE in 2012???