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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Vs Republican Lite: Do Democrats really turn out for these things?
I mean in the numbers that matter?
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Republican Vs Republican Lite: Do Democrats really turn out for these things? (Original Post)
T S Justly
Jan 2012
OP
Good. '08 saw a revival of Promises, Promises. In 2010, we lost a Chamber. It took ...
T S Justly
Jan 2012
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eridani
(51,907 posts)1. Active ones do
Occasional voters (who rarely bother to identify themselves by party) do not.
Syrinx
(14,804 posts)2. in regards to what?
T S Justly
(884 posts)4. Like in elections and stuff. (nt)
blogslut
(37,999 posts)7. 90 million turned out to vote in 2010
In 2008, a presidential year, 131 million voted.
edit add: totals were voters from all political alliances.
T S Justly
(884 posts)8. Good. '08 saw a revival of Promises, Promises. In 2010, we lost a Chamber. It took ...
Only two years for the electorate to react to Republican Lite. Did enough Democrats
come out in the mid-terms?
I'm done. I will not play your game.
Rex
(65,616 posts)3. Exactly what are 'these things'?
Rallys? Conventions? Debates? Free Bananas?
T S Justly
(884 posts)5. Bananas. As in who's less? (nt)
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. That would be a tough call imo.