What closed the 'enthusiasm gap' in California? bad news about GOP candidates!

[Liberal_in_LA]

Democrats closing the 'enthusiasm gap,' Times/USC poll finds
October 22, 2010 | 1:34 pm
Has the much-vaunted “enthusiasm gap” in the 2010 election begun to narrow? At least in California, that seems to be the case, according to the latest Los Angeles Times/USC poll.

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In the meantime, what has changed to close the enthusiasm gap? Stanley Greenberg, one of the pollsters who conducted the survey for The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, noted that in September, many Republicans were excited about the prospect of winning the race for governor and the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Barbara Boxer. Since then, the Republican candidate for governor, Meg Whitman, has endured a month of mostly bad news, including the public surfacing of her former housekeeper, an illegal immigrant, and a series of polls showing her trailing Democrat Jerry Brown. The same polls consistently have shown Republican Carly Fiorina trailing Boxer. All that may have dampened Republican enthusiasm, Greenberg suggested.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/10/california-voters-enthusiasm-poll.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. Its not a gap anymore....its bye bye time...the GOPers have FAILED

[proud patriot]

2. +1

[HubertHeaver]

3. I do not believe the so-called 'enthusiasm gap' ever actually

existed. The reality is this 'gap' was a GOP/MSM construct created in their imaginations only.

[Merlot]

10. I agree with you.

[stopbush]

4. IF the MSM ever reported that Ds were going to do OK in this election,

R support and enthusiasm would absolutely crumble.

They're like the end times cults who climb to the top of the mountain on the day the world is supposed to end, only to have their beliefs dashed when it doesn't happen.

[foxfeet]

8. +1 for common sense.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. That narrative has been going on since before Obama was elected.

Since that day it's been "just wait until that midterm! The midterm will be bad for the Dems, it's always bad!"

[struggle4progress]

6. GOTV

[LiberalAndProud]

7. The enthusiasm gap has alway been a construct of the pollsters, amplified by the media.

The closer we get to polling day, the more backpedaling we see. The polls tighten. Enthusiasm gap closes. This is bullshit propaganda and I, for one, have had enough and more than enough of it.

[bemildred]

9. Exactly. Witless drivel, paid propaganda done for money. nt