Posted on 11/11/2006 12:00:19 AM PST by FairOpinion
The Democratic share of the eligible vote casting ballots for the House of Representatives increased from 16.8 percent in 2002 to 17.9 in 2006.
The Republican share declined sharply, from 19.2 percent in 2002 to 16.8 in 2006. This marks the first mid-term election since 1990 in which the Democrats garnered more votes that the GOP.
In the ballots so far counted in 2006 (and again excluding California, Oregon and Washington), citizens cast 31,703,311 votes for Democratic candidates for U.S. House, compared to 28,749,023 in 2002. The Republican candidates received 29,920,240 votes in 2006 compared with 32,771,580 in 2002.
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I voted against the RATS not for the Republicans. The Republicans in charge now are the most worthless in history. But unfortunately we lost some good people. The silver lining is the few RINOs that were tossed.
I didn't write that part at the bottom... the crowing, triumphant 3rd party member did.
You argued that folks here weren't bragging... they are.
Goodnight, onyx...
Tomorrow I'll invest in some Jack Daniels for medicinal purposes. I'll let you know if it works ;-)
The data is already out there. It's a full time job and would take me an estimated 2 years to complete 50 states. I'm already familiar with WI and the R turnout was the same as it's been previously. There was no change in R BASE turnout. The change was an increase in D votes and success of D propaganda efforts on the switch hitters(I).
Brevity is the soul of wit. You nailed it with your post. I think we got nailed by the voting dead this election, and there hasn't been even a peep about pursuing a better voter identification system. If this continues, we'll be fighting tooth and nail to get elected dog catcher, forget congress.
Sorry, mixed up the posts, am tired... it was others on the thread arguing that nobody was bragging.
Goodnight.
No I didn't. I also know there's Ds, Is and others here. Bragging by those folks doesn't interest me, because the real cause in the turnover of the house is not a change in base votes, it's a failure to attract and motivate for votes. I can also say that it's not, because the candidates, or incumbents were not conservative enough. Ignoring various regional issues, the main reason for the rat win is an unpopular war and missteps by some conservative candidates and incumbents.
OK, I was confused about that. Good night.
Turnout looked pretty low across the board didn't it? W got over 62,000,000 votes himself in 2004...
What, I wonder, is going to be so different about the Democratic congress compared to the Republican one we just had?
thanks.........I think....
The overall turnout is always higher in a presidential election year than it is in a midterm year. The turnout of the base is buried and takes a significant amount of work to extract. Those numbers are never reported. As far as the 62M+ votes W got goes, that includes those that were swayed to vote for him.
One is here, I am sure there are many more similar ones.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736379/posts?page=111#111
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736379/posts?page=112#112
Take a look
And you can thank McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform". Another legacy piece of legislation from Senator John McCain.
Yeah, so? Most of those votes were probably D otherwise and the rest are crackpots. Talent should have run a better campaign and motivated folks. He had a pool of 3.7M to work on that didn't vote plus the Is that voted D. Why focus on the pool of 10K crackpots for blame? Is it easier to convince someone that voted for the D, or wasn't motivated to vote, or someone that's a dedicated LPer?
We won the popular vote, but lost the election! This proves all of the polls wrong, particularly the generic ones. Repub candidates got more overall votes than dems. The Dem strategy of supressing the values voters worked. I even voted with a clothes pin on my nose.
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