One Number Explains Tuesday’s Miserable Election Results: 65 Percent
November 5, 2014
One simple number explains the surprising scale of Democratic losses on Tuesday: 65% Percent of those Exit Polled said the country is on “the wrong track”.
o Unemployment is nearly half its 2009 post-Bush peak of 10.0%, down to 5.9% and falling.
o The Deficit is down TWO-THIRDS over what President Obama inherited.
o GDP is up to an amazing 3.5%
o Both the DOW and the S&P are at record highs.
And those exit polled overwhelmingly said the country is “on the wrong track” (only if “wrong track” to you means anything that makes Obama look good). That can ONLY be because Republican turnout was vastly superior to that of Democrats. Only a group of people SO DISCONNECTED from reality as to give this president an absurd SEVEN PERCENT approval rating (and President Bush a 63% approval rating his final year) despite a record like his could claim the country is on “the wrong track” with numbers like that.
Did the number of people believing the economy is on “the wrong track” drive people to vote Republican, or did more Republicans (who already believe the economy is “on the wrong track”) simply turn up to vote in greater numbers? I argue it was the latter.
Even races Democrats were expected to win easily were closer than expected. Many races that should have been close were blowouts. Why? TURNOUT. They had it, we didn’t. It’s that simple.
Nothing moves people to the polls like anger, and the GOP has been stoking Republican anger towards President Obama… who wasn’t even on the ballot… to the point where it moved Conservative voters to the polls in large numbers.
But one thing gnawed at me all last week: With just a 16% approval rating, how come “control of the HOUSE” was never in doubt? Think about it? How does a body with an approval rating lower than sour milk, one in which EVERY SINGLE MEMBER was up for (re)election, not only not have to worry about losing control of the House but actually PICK UP seats? Simple, rampant Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression and cuts to Early Voting locations/hours/days, all of which affect Democrats disproportionally.
Tuesday’s win wasn’t a victory for Republicans, it was a victory for ignorance, theft & apathy.
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November 5, 2014
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Cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle said it well: http://blog.chron.com/nickanderson/2014/11/grumpy-voters/I voted 4 times before my faulty machine would record my vote. I complained to a poll judge and he assured they had “great” machines, not to worry.
For some reason the link above isn’t the one I chose.http://blog.chron.com/nickanderson/2014/11/grumpy-voters/
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