Posted on 11/04/2014 11:56:42 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
Midterm elections have national consequences, and what happens Tuesday will help determine what President Obama can get done in his final two years in office. It will tee up the coming 2016 presidential contest and give Americans the chance to try on a more powerful GOP as they start to think about who should be the next president.
But first comes Tuesday and here is what's going to happen:
#1 - There will be a surprise -- Something we're listing below won't end up happening. This is an election and it isn't over yet. Voters are fickle and polls aren't perfect and predictions are even less so. So tune in to CNN Politics all day and night Tuesday. We will be here and it will be exciting.
#2 -Most Americans won't take part -- Really, it will be exciting on Tuesday. But most Americans won't have taken part in the election. Somewhere between 55% and 65% of eligible Americans vote in a presidential election (about 130 million people in 2012). Far fewer -- between 39% and 42% of Americans take part in a midterm election (about 90 million in 2010). A recent focus group of moms conducted by a group affiliated with Walmart suggested they would bone up for their votes by Googling candidates the night before. Voter excitement is actually down from 2010, the last midterm election, according to the most recent CNN / ORC Poll. That poll also suggested voters are angry at their political process and at Washington, D.C., either because they see their votes as not accomplishing change or they see the current logjam in Washington as intractable. Either way, less than half the eligible population is likely to show up and let their voices be heard in this election.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Yes. I was at the polls 10 minutes after they opened and had to wait in line for a booth to open up.
This was after I presented my driver's license and said nothing until I was handed a ballot.
I hope Obama begins his two-year farewell tour tomorrow.
Will Susan Estrich show up on FOX drunk as a skunk?
I’ve read many threads both here at FR and other places and there have been quite a few remarks about the voters who are the “older generation” at the polls. I’m guessing that the older adults are looking to reverse (fix) what the “young’ns” did in 2012, where they voted for their American Idol rather than a President. Adults back in charge, lol.
Though I am really going to miss watching Keith Olbermann’s head explode.
Read a Michael Barone piece yesterday. But, yes, if he is not on FOX he will be missed. He knows America county by county. An amazing political mind
Freegards
LEX
I need to see that! !!
8. Al Sharpton will mispronounce most of the 3 and 4 letter one syllable words rolling on his teleprompter.
“polls will stay open late in St Louis or Kansas City as busses of blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.”
“polls will stay open late in St Louis or Kansas City as busses of ILLEGAL ALIENS and blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.”
Just being accurate. . .
I do not think this is necessarily a good thing.
It could mean a certain group is more likely voting again, and that tips the scales for the enemy.
Here, I did not see many people at all, like normal. Neither did my husband later.
I voted at 1:00 pm today and the parking lot was full. No lines, but the voters were moving along smartly and keep coming at a steady rate as I left. Tell me about voter apathy? I don’t think so.
‘We’ve lost Florida’
MSM vowed never to lose that state again.
bump
Half of em are pro atheletes, the other half disney characters.
What are Lena Dunham’s Lovers for $100 Alex?
You callin Karl Rove a youngun?
Some choice, two cultists with foreign daddies wanting to force socialized medicine upon us!
Polls will stay open late in St Louis or Kansas City as busses of blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.
Polls will stay open late in Milwaukee or Chicago as busses of blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.
Polls will stay open late in Atlanta or Jacksonville as busses of blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.
Polls will stay open late in Nawlins or Birmingham as busses of blacks show up, probably all registered to the same address and all clutching goody bags.
ADINFINITUM
and many of those Democrat voters who take part aren't even aware that they did.
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