All of this spewing about Democrats having a problem getting our voters to the polls?

[Peacetrain]

What exactly is this based on? Wolf Blitzer just made that statment on CNN

We have not had an internal war like the Republicans that has had them juiced.

So why all the pronouncements of "problems" turning out Democratic voters?

[JuniperLea]

1. The Pubbies always spew lies over and over again...

In the hope of making them true.

[Peacetrain]

2. That is what I think..hoping it will happen in November.

[arcane1]

3. Part of the official narrative

Dems are demoralized, there's a huge anti-incumbent fever taking over, and repubs are expected to gain mightily in November.

All of which serves one purpose: to make the inevitable Dem victory in November appear illegitimate, even fraudulent.

[Peacetrain]

4. I hope they all choke on the returns as they come in.. just like they did last night

[Blue Owl]

5. Based on nothing other than the words scrolling on Wolf's turdprompter

which is all just a bunch of Rovian hokum.

[Peacetrain]

6. I am wonder what tea leaves they are reading?

They make these pronouncements of Democratic voters not turning out.. gee let see..this is September and the election is in November.. and all the anger has been in Republican circles so how is this a Democratic problem?

[spanone]

7. they've come up with this new 'enthusiasm' bullshit . it means nothing.

[Peacetrain]

8. BINGO.. trying to surpress the Democratic vote with negativity..

[alstephenson]

14. Yes, it's the "voter enthusiasm" B.S.

The "pollsters" are trying to equate voter enthusiasm with turnout for the primaries, which is total crap. Here in Arizona many of the Democratic candidates were unchallenged. I still voted in the primary, but I know many Democrats who did not, but they FOR SURE will be voting in the General Election. You can take that to the bank.

[PBass]

18. Lucky for us, an "enthusiastic" vote doesn't count any more than a regular vote.

The only poll that matters is on Nov.2. Voter enthusiasm needs to peak in the last days leading up to that date. Enthusiasm now is pretty much meaningless.

I do believe the media loves a horse race, and we will see things magically tighten up in the last days, in order to enhance the television drama.

[flpoljunkie]

9. Tweety's theme today is that the GOTP has the 'juice!' But, do the Dems?

GOTP=Grand Old Tea Party

We shall indeed, soon see if the Dems have the 'juice.' I am betting we have 'juice enough!'

[Peacetrain]

10. Let me see Tweety.. its Wednesday.. yep that is about right

Every other day he swings for the fences for the one party and then promotes the other the next.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. You guys watch too much TV. Here in Suffolk County NY...

We had about 289,000 Democrats vote in the primary and 301,000 Republicans, which is maybe a slightly higher turnout for Republicans, but they had more to vote for-- there were few, if any, local primaries and we had only the AG primary while the Republicans had two Senate, one Governor, and a number of House primaries.

I don't have registration totals handy, but from the districts I know of, this looks like around a 20% turnout on all sides-- pretty good for a primary.

Youlda thunk even more Republicans would have shown up with those stakes. Even adding the 3,000 Conservative party votes to the Republican totals doesn't change much.

(Absentee ballots are not included, since they have until next week to show up.)

[Peacetrain]

13. Good to hear!

[Exilednight]

16. Here in Suffolk the rethugs didn't put a primary challenger on the ballot ..........

Randy whateverhisnameis is going to run against Bishop. The upside is that Bishop didn't have a primary challenger either, so things have yet to turn ugly and he has a nice tidy sum in his war chest.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. Huh? There was a Republican primary-- Randy Altschuler won it. Bishop...

didn't get primaried, but so what? That's good news. Yeah, he probably will take it again, even though the teabaggers are out for blood this time.

(Was I ever pissed when I saw Goode in a Senate primary. Even more pissed and disturbed when I saw she got 20% of the vote. Gillenbrand's gotta get the message out.)

[Stevepol]

12. This is to prepare the public's mind for the possible huge success

of the Repubs at fixing and otherwise manipulating the voting machines so as to twist the results to fit the results they wish for.

Everything depends on how successful they will be at rigging the elections. If they are successful, then the usual gang of pundits will jump on this explanation for why the results on the electronic voting machines seem to contradict the results of the pre-election polls and/or the exit polls and/or the paper ballots (absentee, etc.) counted at the same time.

Business as usual.

[Exilednight]

15. All of this spewing is based upon primary turnout ............

rethugs outnumbered Dems by large margins.