Regardless of trends...it's sad that people can't be bothered to get off their lazy asses and vote...
-----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:gm0n3...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 4:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Who got punished? Re: Punitive Politics On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > One thing I found interesting about this election is that for all the > foreknowledge that Democrats were going to get the smackdown in this > election, for everything everyone said about how there needed to be > bigger turn out to avoid a slaughter...the turnout never showed up. > Democrats lost as much because they couldn't get out the vote as > because they couldn't follow through on economic promises. Are the two > related? Probably. Does it explain most of the low turnout? I doubt > it, but I don't know. > > Turnout in 2008 was 130 million. Turnout in 2010 was 82.5 million. > Almost 50 million people didn't make it out to offer their view on the > state of the economy, their feelings on health care reform and what > direction the country should take. > Whoa whoa whoa...you cannot compare vote turnout in a mid-term election, with the voter turnout during a presidential election. Mid term voter turnout will ALWAYS be lower, and usually MUCH lower. To get a better comparison of turnout "trends", you'd have to go back to another mid term election. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:330952 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
