2&2 Slider To Leyritz
Well-known member
Boy, you really love to mock that woman, don't you 2&2?
Anyone thinking that turnout is going to be low in 2012 is simply insane. Not with the dollars that will be in play. Neither side needs to worry about their base showing up either. Not with the poisonous political atmosphere we have currently. That woman may have been a hysterical voter in 2008, but she's still likely a voter in 2012, with a little prodding from the billion-dollar ground game Obama will employ. And she is not likely to vote for the GOP.
Voters have been trained by media and both parties to see these elections as war, with the winner walking all over the loser. The left will be plenty stoked to hate the right by November--most polls are showing the enthusiasm gap to have closed drastically from 2010 already, due to the House Pubs and their blundering, and Obama's recent resurgence as an effective, compromise-minded executive. Once Obama started spending all those dollars on his message, he's going to go up, not down.
These polls show the election should be close, and it likely will be, but with Obama (and the economy) trending upward rather than down, we're likely simply looking at a marker along the way to that 50% approval he needs to be very comfortable on election night.
Unless his ground game involves handing out cash, I fail to see how it will prod many people. If I am someone who never voted before 2008 and never really intended to vote ever, and in 2008 I got all hyped up and went to my polling location and stood in line to vote for this guy, but then over the subsequent years realized that voting for that guy didn't get me jack shit, what is going to motivate me to leave my house and stand in line to vote for him again? And that is why I posted that clip ... someone expecting that level of personal individual gain from an election result who then sees none of that gain come to fruition is not likely to waste their time repeating the vote, regardless of how many people tell them to do it for some sort of greater good.