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Study: Democratic turnout for primaries lowest in 80 years
USA Today | 9/8/10

Posted on 09/08/2010 1:08:51 PM PDT by earlJam

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To: dangus
If you're right...it's time to start buying stocks again....cuz the rebound is going to be huge when that sort of majority starts implementing sound economic policies.... (assuming they do the right thing.)
61 posted on 09/08/2010 9:29:42 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
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To: kosciusko51

I’d say this is the strongest indicator yet, that mainstream democrats are rethinking their allegiance to their party and will stay home in November.


62 posted on 09/08/2010 11:44:48 PM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

Libs cannot ever be elected by virtue of having the black vote but they can sure lose by NOT having it.


63 posted on 09/09/2010 4:05:00 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: DEADROCK

LOL, so you actually believe they deliberately did not turn out, that somehow they all came to the conclusion, or better yet were told not to show up in great numbers specifically to lull the Republicans into a sense of false security?


64 posted on 09/09/2010 4:25:25 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: Windflier

Those previously self identified Dems are now Independents.


65 posted on 09/09/2010 4:28:40 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: 101voodoo
The democRats are capable of, and willing to do anything to win. Bluff and bluster with the co-op of MSM always leaves me wondering.

That is the logic behind my sentiment.

66 posted on 09/09/2010 4:38:21 AM PDT by deadrock (Liberty is a bitch that needs to be bedded on a mattress of cadavers.)
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To: SandRat
That reminds me of a great Dem anecdote:

DEMOCRAT---THE ULTIMATE EPITHET Best Dem story to date: Rand Paul was debating his opponent who called Rand an “extremist.”

Without hesitation, Rand shot back, “You’re a Democrat.”


67 posted on 09/09/2010 5:53:20 AM PDT by Liz
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To: DEADROCK

The bluff and bluster I agree with. But the belief in any coordinated effort to DELIBERATELY hold down the turn out, I would consider to be tinfoil hat territory.


68 posted on 09/09/2010 5:57:42 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: earlJam
Democrats face a series of dramatic defeats at every level of government in Washington and beyond in Nov midterms, according to leading analysts and opinion polls. The U of Virginia’s widely monitored Crystal Ball forecasts sweeping setbacks on Capitol Hill and the loss of a clutch of state governorships Nov 2.

Such is the scale of the expected losses, that according to local polls, Democrats are on course to lose the governorships of left-leaning states such as Michigan and Pennsylvania..............and may be vulnerable in Illinois, long a Dem party bastion, and home to Ohaha and his WH crew.

" Holy Allah. Illinois? Gone? Get that little twerp Rahm in here. Him and his permanent Democrat majority."

69 posted on 09/09/2010 6:00:10 AM PDT by Liz
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To: I still care

Or steal votes.


70 posted on 09/09/2010 7:11:39 AM PDT by Weird Tolkienish Figure
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To: 101voodoo
Those previously self identified Dems are now Independents.

They're still ex-Democrats, and that's good news.

71 posted on 09/09/2010 8:10:51 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

My point was most Independents are Left leaning, probably to the tune of 65+%.


72 posted on 09/09/2010 9:38:20 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: 101voodoo
My point was most Independents are Left leaning, probably to the tune of 65+%.

Even if that's true, Independents appear to be breaking to the right in this election cycle.

73 posted on 09/09/2010 9:44:53 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

correct


74 posted on 09/09/2010 12:00:35 PM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: cruise_missile

I know LA had EXTREMELY low turhnout in both primaries on Aug. 28, but the media is now promoting Democrat Charlie Melancon as a serious candidate against David Vitter.


75 posted on 09/09/2010 2:09:55 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Rush was right when he said America may survive Obama but not the Obama supporters.)
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To: 101voodoo

An Independent is a person looking for a government program that will benefit himself. He is uninterested in other people’s government programs.


76 posted on 09/09/2010 2:11:52 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Rush was right when he said America may survive Obama but not the Obama supporters.)
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To: Oldpuppymax

“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.”

So what? There aren’t enough blacks to elect Obama, even if they all voted for him. I can assure you that all blacks will not vote for this incompetent clown and his radical leftist partners in Congress.

Obama is in the White House because the majority of white voters put him there. There is no question about that. Lets see if those idiots have changed their minds.


77 posted on 09/13/2010 11:56:22 AM PDT by SkipW
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