2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNearly Half of Americans Don't Care Who's Going to Congress ... In other words .
We don't give a shitA pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the 2014 midterms. The latest polling shows a remarkably ambivalent public, many of whom dont really seem that concerned about even voting in the first place.
According to the Associated Press, a recent poll about the upcoming election has people preferring that Democrats get control of Congress at 37 percent, Republicans at 31 percent, and another 31 percent saying they have no preference at all. Furthermore, only 53 percent care a good deal about who wins
As the article notes, a great deal of the apathy is a rather normal state when it comes to a midterm election. After all, voter turnout is traditionally much lower than it is during a presidential election, with a mere 40 percent of eligible voters turning up to cast a ballot.
Thats a tragedy. Midterms can make or break a country, as we saw during the 2010 GOP sweep. There are many life changing reasons to vote in this midterm, and yes, it really does matter which party controls Congress.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23981-nearly-half-of-americans-dont-care-whos-going-to-congress-and-thats-a-bad-thing
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)is decided by a VERY small minority of the total population.
And our political masters like it that way.
And thus we get the government we deserve.
Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)apathy works to their favor, cause their core is always more reliable going to the polls.
Disenfranchise/disinterest as many as possible and win the war of attrition.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)For all sorts of reasons people are too tired, worn to be stimulated to vote. This is a terrible situation. We have a lot of work ahead of us until November
JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)Or it can mean essentially nothing, as we saw when the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress in 2006 and, instead of ending the war in Iraq as promised, gave us "The Surge," renewed the Patriot act, gave us the Military Commissions Act, provided immunity for the telecom industry...
I would say the apathy is pretty well justified.
daschess1987
(192 posts)GOTV