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(12,844 posts)That's what the A-Team (Asshole plutocrats) is saying to each other about the low voter turnout.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)RoverSuswade
(641 posts)voting to white people only. It's a shame the 'american people' don't seem to care ("get a latte at Starbucks for me to drink while I watch the Kardashians on TV and text hundreds of my friends. What? DId I VOTE? Hello, no. Both parties are the same." .
Blue_Adept
(6,393 posts)Unless we think the restrictions really took out that many people.
It's an "easy" answer.
I'm still in the camp that there was nothing really motivating people to get out. There were no huge barnstormer questions or things on the ballot to draw people out. Everything really is local when it comes to this kind of election.
Add in the overall sense of utter apathy that most people have towards it and it's a decent little perfect storm.
I just can't attribute it all to the new restrictions because even then it's just hitting barely half of the 50 states overall. And turnout was awful in nearly every state I believe.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)A small poll was taken asking people who did not vote why they did not vote.
"A full two-thirds said they simply didn't have enough time to vote. More than half of this group - 35 percent of the total - said that scheduling conflicts with work or school kept them from getting to the polls last Tuesday. Another 34 percent of the total said they were simply too busy, or that they were sick, out of town, or forgot about election day.
Twenty percent said they didn't like the candidates, didn't know enough to vote, or simply didn't care. And another 10 percent said that technical difficulties kept them from the polls - a missed registration deadline, a recent move or lack of transportation"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/12/a-ton-of-people-didnt-vote-because-they-couldnt-get-time-off-from-work/
Vote by mail solves the time issues. GOTV calls try to mitigate the 'forgot the election' folks. It's better.
geretogo
(1,281 posts)The rest of the states need to join the 21st century as far as voting goes .
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)IF people cannot vote, they would good will it do for them to come out and vote?
These laws target likely democratic voters, people of color, and young people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/voter-id-laws-minorities_n_1878893.html
kairos12
(12,842 posts)Also add to the list gerrymandering the electoral college like what is now proposed in Michigan.
Botany
(70,447 posts)Electric power cut to voting locations in Florida, 40,000 new voter registrations
being lost in Georgia, N.C. reports of machines flipping votes, TN's weird results
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025795373 , 32 Republican Sec. of States
using a software that "spots" voters who might be "double voting" from one
state to another, Walker's win in Wisconsin, and all the people in Kansas voting
for the person and a policy that is crushing their state.
Something stinks
world wide wally
(21,738 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)HELL NO!!!!!!! The racists Rule amerikkka now.
The Wizard
(12,536 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 14, 2014, 08:52 PM - Edit history (1)
voter suppression and gaming the system with a compliant Mediocre Court (Supreme does not apply to this bunch). Roman Empire you're about to get company.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)source to show numbers disenfranchised because of the new Jim Crow laws, rules and voter id laws that made it impossible to vote for a number of people. And if the number was that high, was it impossible to use the war chest of the Democratic Party to send out poll watchers that know the district laws and regs pertaining to voting rights and advocating for the disenfranchised? I fell the same per Roman Empire and the Fall thereof.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)instead, some prefer to blame people for not voting only in america the disconnect is astounding!!!!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)a LOT of people didn't vote, yet your point is valid and the truth. Only in amerika could people vote against their own self-interest in the numbers they did only because of the skin color of the POTUS and cowardice of the democratic party leadership not being able to instill any confidence in the base as to it's ability to look out for the poor and yes, oppressed. .
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)as long as "our leaders" remain silent about that, they don't deserve any votes.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)because of their cowardice at not speaking up about the disenfranchisement among other lies, cheats and steals by the RW. We have no real leadership.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Kablooie
(18,608 posts)turbinetree
(24,683 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 14, 2014, 04:18 PM - Edit history (1)
As Rachel Maddow reported the republicans own and control over 3,600 branches of some form of this country's government from the school boards to the State Senate and representatives and they own 27 states, governorships, and 250 Congressional right wing hypocrites seats and 53 possibly 54 U.S. Senate seats.
So to think outside the box if they have 27 states and need 38 that means 11 more state have to go republican and if you are in a so called purple state they can get there 38 states to call for a Constitutional convention and these 5 right wing hypocrite, plutocrats, oligarch, republicans in the Supreme court who are fascists already have shown there disdain for people to vote and to give us the RIGHT in this process, and is not, and I repeat, not in there cards, in the so called mantra chiseled on the Portico steps of the Supreme Court "EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL" there corporate money is making sure that this is not going to happen, so for all you that did not go out and vote this election cycle ---no whining,you made YOUR bed and you have NO say, you failed in your civic responsibilities
You have helped cause this race to the bottom, voting is a RIGHT and its not a privilege, this court wants voting to be a privilege, and every election is based on who runs and has the power in and at the judicial level at the state and federal level, because if you don't get it,----- they will not give it to you
Hekate
(90,552 posts)Riiiiiiight.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)father founding
(619 posts)He probably hated him then too.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)AlinPA
(15,071 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)The nationwide edition.
K&R.
randys1
(16,286 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)these are the same people who tout the Constitution and freedom at every turn. How are you going to be for those things and then make it harder for some of your fellow Americans to exercise their rights?
EEO
(1,620 posts)ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Red, blue, rural, urban, east, west, south. I posted a handful of Google news links and stories here, in different threads, on election night and the following morning, and there were tons more. Reports of high mail-in rates, too. But then . . . on Wednesday afternoon, AP reported lower-than-ever turnout, based on votes counted, and that became the official Election '14 story, posted several times in GD and more or less accepted as The Truth. But it ain't the truth, at all.
Nice job EarlG!
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)in the rural part of the state, we ended up with the third highest turnout in the country, over 55%. Even though we lost Mark Begich, we did manage to get rid of Governor "Seanoco" Parnell.
yuiyoshida
(41,818 posts)There is a good possibility, the next President might be a Republican?
Obama voters overwhelmed the polls, but who knows what will happen next time, especially with all the Republican dirty tricks.
father founding
(619 posts)Are alive and well.
dflprincess
(28,072 posts)we still have same day registration and yet the turnout (50%) was the lowest it's been for a long time.