| Very disturbing survey result: But a bigger indicator of peril comes from a new survey question added the DK tracking poll for the first time this week. The poll now includes a rather simple indicator of baseline voter enthusiasm for the year 2010. The question offered to respondents is a simple question about their intentions for 2010: QUESTION: In the 2010 Congressional elections will you definitely vote, probably vote, not likely vote, or definitely will not vote? The results were, to put it mildly, shocking: Voter Intensity: Definitely + Probably Voting/Not Likely + Not Voting Republican Voters: 81/14
Independent Voters: 65/23
DEMOCRATIC VOTERS: 56/40 Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the 2010 electorate pool. Indeed, Democrats were three times more likely to say that they will "definitely not vote" in 2010 than are Republicans.
These guys are just killing their base, while the opposition is revving up theirs. When will Democrats figure out how that it's ok to please the people who put you in office? For example, I was resigned to a congressman (Parker Griffith, AL-05) who would not be much better than his Blue Dog predecessor, except I knew he understood the need to fix health care and he would likely drop Bud Cramer's obsession with eliminating the estate tax. That isn't much, but it was plenty to get me psyched enough to put out some signs and defend him to my friends. What do I get in return? He's against health care reform, still pushing to eliminate the estate tax and bashing Nancy Pelosi to boot. Griffith isn't slightly better than Cramer, he's worse, and if the election were tomorrow he'd lose because his base is completely demoralized. This will be very ugly for Congressional Dems next November unless they start listening/talking to the people who put them in office. |
