I think early voting sucks.
The Dems have all that time to bus in the Obama Phone users to get them to the polls. They hit up the homeless shelters, etc.
Yep. Axelrod figured out how to turn that spigot on, along with others over the years who pushed early voting, lack of ID etc etc. They got the unlikely voter to come out.
BUT there is a corollary to that, those voters still did not show up in the OFF year election of 2010.
Looks like the big move in 2010 was more about these unlikely voters not engaging unless it is a big time election.
So that leaves some questions.
1) Are we now in a trend where the Right will win 2014 big, because that new Dem base from the Demographic Wave won’t turn out, but they WILL turn out again in 2016..causing a kind of lurching electoral wobble walk.
2) Can the Dems find this combination again in 2016 with a new person? Will this new voter turn out for ANYONE on the Dem Presidential ticket now? Or only youth? Only racially?
Some combination?
3) What will the GOP fiddle around and do to counter? Move further left? Push Rubio and go hard for latinos? Both?
4) We may be seeing a flip of the old saw where the Democrats had a lot of the states, the House etc, and the GOP had the Presidency in a box for a time. While one shouldn’t be satisfied with that, a lot can be changed BOTTOM up. Of course, if the GOP drifts left that won’t matter...but the key for tea party types is to think smaller and do what the dems did. Go for the school boards, cities, etc and work UP. Those elections don’t have this kind of turnout.