I circled some important observations about Missouri Mid-term turnout

[usregimechange]

[SocialistLez]

1. I'm assuming the places with the lowest turnout were places that traditionally vote for Dems? NT

[TheDebbieDee]

2. And you would be assuming correctly!

[usregimechange]

3. KC and STLC

[pstokely]

4. Carnahan also ran a crappy campaign

The counties with highest turnout have an old white electorate. She also didn't campaign enough in Kansas City. St Louis candidates don't seem to care about the Kansas City area.

[apocalypsehow]

6. It's always been my impression that St. Louis considers itself Western Illinois, instead of MO. n/t.

[pstokely]

9. And many think the Kansas City side of MO is in Kansas.

And they also think the entire KC area is a KU town.

[apocalypsehow]

18. That's funny: I grew up in Overland Park, and didn't really figure out I wasn't from the Show-Me

State until I went to get my driver's license for the first time.

An exaggeration, of course, but not by much.

[apocalypsehow]

5. And that stretch of "Brown" - above 50% - in South/SW/West Central MO is Freeperland deluxe:

some of the most conservative areas of the entire state. I know it well: the right-wing side of my family is from Joplin.

[pstokely]

10. A lof of the those brown areas are in the 5th house district.

A big race. No big races besides the Senate in KC and STL probably contributed to the low turnout

[apocalypsehow]

17. You are probably right, but I well know the Carthage-Joplin-Neosho triangle, and it's among the

most Freeperfied areas in the continental United States, if not planet Earth.

I mean, have you ever been to Newton, Jasper or McDonald counties, and sampled the political atmosphere there? :shrug:

I have. Repeatedly.

Edit: clarity.

[pstokely]

19. I've driven through them on the old route 66

Fundie signs everywhere

[Odin2005]

7. That is what happens when you piss on your base.

[usregimechange]

22. Do you mean the right? In other words, maybe that is how you win, freak out your base

[anakie]

8. What was the national turnout?

n/t


peace

[anaxarchos]

11. The preliminaries say about 90 million, which is about 42% of...

...registered voters. That would be about 6 million more than in 2006 (the last midterm), BUT the composition was different. It appears that key Democratic demographics didn't show up in the same numbers as 2006 or in numbers large enough to compensate for right-wing "enthusiasm" in 2010, just as Odin says above.

[usregimechange]

12. 42%

[anakie]

13. thanks

[The Midway Rebel]

14. Excellent post.

You've captured a phenomena that I think reflects a broader trend. In this election we did not have the Cool Black Guy and Unca' Joe B battling it out against Old White Fogey and Lady Blah Blah hype. Young urban and suburban voters did not turn out at the polls and the angry teabag type rural voters did.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. Ha! Never mind

Serves me right for not knowing Missouri!

Cheers.

[MissMarple]

16. I used to live in Butler County. PB to be exact. What happpened to GOTV?

[pstokely]

20. Concentrated too much in urban areas

nt

[apocalypsehow]

21. ...

:kick: