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.
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