Demographics: 2008 v. 2010

[ProSense]

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[bemildred]

1. Interesting, thanks. nt

[usregimechange]

2. Dem base voters stayed home

[gateley]

3. I am so angry with them -- there was so much at stake. I don't know if their

votes would have made a difference, but to not even try? :grr:

[ecstatic]

7. Many of the dems in trouble started distancing themselves from Obama

so of course that didn't go over too well with the base.

[gateley]

8. It's no excuse. How does having Speaker Boehner go over with them? I'm seriously

angry at them. I feel so strongly that if a friend of mine told me s/he didn't bother, I'd probably just end that relationship. As it is, I'm furious at my sister-in-law for forgetting to send my nephew's ballot to him at college, but that's tempered by the fact that he'd probably vote Republican. How he came from this family is beyond me.

[ProSense]

10. Just read a DFA memo touting

Michael Bennet and others who didn't run from their health care vote.

Running from health care reform was not the thing to do. Also, voting against it didn't make the blue dogs more popular.

[patrice]

15. That pissed me off too! I am not happy with him either, but the appropriate response is to

get strong and, hence, independent of him. You stay in the game and do the work that results in trustworthy relationships with others doing the work and, thus, fight your way to the table, where you can advocate without conditions, because you owe no one for being there.

A lot of people just decided to act out for short-term emotional rewards that will actually result in taking the longer much more painful route to the table.

There were also certain issue groups playing both ends against the middle.

[patrice]

14. For all of the very definite ignorance of the opposition, we Dems also must accept the fact that

of those staying home, which it IS their right to do so, a significant number made that decision on little or not enough information.

There's also the issue of passing the buck when it comes to the work of local campaigns, not enough volunteers, especially, and too many chiefs and not enough indians when it comes to getting that work done. Volunteers are not told, and therefore do not understand, why the do what they do, and, believe me, it DOES look like idiocy to the uninitiated and campaign leaders should work right along side of the volunteers. Three-four people in a phone-bank and 2 people "supervising" just does NOT cut it; if you don't like making calls, DO NOT even associate yourself with any phone banks. If you don't like canvassing, DO NOT associate yourself with canvassing projects.

[pstokely]

4. They came out, problem in they're concentrated in Dem areas

Most of the lost house seats were in conservative rural districts with an older whiter electorate

[patrice]

17. Precisely those who will be drugged and warehoused by RepubliCONS, until they are no longer

a problem.

[bigwillq]

5. Who is the "Dem base"?

:shrug:

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. I am, actually.

And my friends. And the people we like. And this guy in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His name is Jason.

We're the Democratic base. There are about 36, 37 of us.

AND FROM NOW ON WE'RE CALLING THE SHOTS, DAMMIT.

[gateley]

9. Did you vote? Did Jason? :-) nt

[Davis_X_Machina]

11. Jason goofed on the day...

...and tried to vote this afternoon. Freakin' slacker.

[CBR]

16. We have to get out the black and hispanic votes in 2012... nt

[scheming daemons]

12. This one graph tells the whole story. America didn't change its mind....

...just a different breakdown of America came to the polls.



Old whites showed up.


Young, and minorities didn't.

[patrice]

13. The 18-29 decreased as much as the 65+ increased. That's a double whammy.