Posted on 08/10/2014 6:08:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Ask voters in North Carolinas Research Triangle what Novembers midterm elections are about and one will tell you drones. A second will say closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yet another, the middle-class squeeze.
At a Sunday school classroom in Ypsilanti, Mich., voters are concerned about deteriorating roads, teen sex parties, truancy in schools and violent crime. Six hundred miles west at a Republican campaign office in Urbandale, Iowa, people fear that America is on an irreversible decline like Germany after World War I, as one man predicted.
Across Colorado, voters are thinking about a whole other set of concerns veterans care, drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants, the soaring cost of housing, the erosion of Christian conservative values, Russias rise, and fracking.
This is an election about nothing and everything. Unlike in previous midterm election years, no dominant national theme has emerged for the 2014 campaign, according to public opinion surveys as well as interviews last week with scores of voters in five key states and with dozens of politicians and party strategists.
Even without a single salient issue, a heavy cloud of economic anxiety and general unease is hanging over the fiercely partisan debate.......
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Democrats don’t have an issue...
Our issues (conservatives’ issue) is to vote democrats out of office. If the people at the Washington Post knew a few conservatives, they would know that.
Is it not obvious that if we are going to get the stupid to vote the other way, and perhaps get the incredible percentage of the electorate that does not vote, to vote, we have to get beyond the economy issue? Or at least make it part of a comprehensive
BTW, IMNVHO, the economy is going to stay tanked into the 20s.
They just left out the words: “no dominant theme will be covered by the media for 2014”
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