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In reply to the discussion: What's most responsible for keeping Democrats home? [View all]Algernon Moncrieff
(5,795 posts)45. Other
It's partly cyclical. The supporters of the party in power get fatigued by the third midterm in a two-term presidency.
It's partly the paradox of a growing economy. Now that the Dow and housing process aren't falling off a cliff; now that people aren't worried about their kids and/or spouses dying in Iraq (and worrying less about Afghanistan), people are getting back to bitching about their taxes being too high.
..and I think ISIS and Ebola have combined to put the independent center in an anti-immigrant, anti-Islamic mood. The news media is painting the Dems as having already lost the Senate, and people see that and see the state of the country and world and say "why the Hell bother?"
At this point, I'm #ReadyForHillary
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I think it is a mixture of disliking a candidate, the political and nstional environment at the...
hrmjustin
Oct 2014
#3
My guess is a sensed lack of relevance, but in WI the mid-term pattern goes back 60 yrs
HereSince1628
Oct 2014
#13
So, that would make the Republican voters SMARTER than the DEM voters, yes???
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#18
A DEM Establishment that refuses to cater to the DEM base, but is more than happy accommodating the
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#17
It is laugh out loud funny watching the divisive threads just before election time.
Rex
Oct 2014
#20
I'm voting. And everyone else I know has committed to voting. I think all this "why are they staying
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2014
#21
You were the one carping about "progressives" in your other disruptive META OP--don't blame a poster
MADem
Oct 2014
#60
NSA spying, Hillary Clinton, sky rocketing college costs, plumeting wages, poverty,
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#28
Why would you stay home if you were unhappy with what elected Democrats are doing? That seems like a
Chathamization
Oct 2014
#41
Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Cornell West, People that indict the actions
orpupilofnature57
Oct 2014
#56