Democratic Turnout A '16 Risk Factor, Poll Finds - Alexis Simendinger/RCP

[WillyT]

Democratic Turnout a '16 Risk Factor, Poll Finds
By Alexis Simendinger - RCP
June 29, 2015

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Democratic voters are skeptics this summer.

They doubt presidential contenders can deliver favored reforms from Washington, no matter how enticing the policy agendas sound. Those doubts depress enthusiasm about next year’s White House contest and could impact turnout for the eventual Democratic nominee.

Those were among early warnings in a survey released Monday of likely 2016 voters, sponsored by Democracy Corps and Women’s Voices, Women Vote Action Fund.

Americans want change and reforms, but “people don’t think any of this is going to happen,” Stan Greenberg, chairman and CEO of polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, said during a reporter roundtable organized by the Christian Science Monitor.

Their skepticism doesn’t turn on the idea of a Democratic nominee who would follow a two-term Democrat, President Obama. “It’s because the old political system is uniquely corrupted” in their eyes, Greenberg said. “What matters is how deep the critique people have about what’s happening in the country, both politically and economically.”

Voters define corruption as money in politics and Washington power brokers who are self-serving and disconnected from everyday Americans and their concerns. This is why Clinton’s wealth, the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising, her decades lived as a VIP, and her missing emails discourage some voters from accepting the leading Democratic candidate as trustworthy, even if they favor the economic and social policies she stakes out.

Overall, the survey found that voters are evenly divided when asked if Democrats or Republicans would do a better job “cleaning up the mess in government” (31 percent each).

In the survey, respondents expressed...

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More: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/06/29/poll_democratic_voters_lack_faith_in_clinton_127177.html

[SamKnause]

1. I am extremely

enthusiastic !!!

[WillyT]

4. Oh I Am Too... But You And I Are On A Political Board...

That suggests that we follow politics closely. Most do not.

[LondonReign2]

2. Fool me once...

I think this can be largely traced to the failure to (even attempt to) deliver on Hope and Change.

[WillyT]

5. Yep... The Trust Factor... Has To Factored In...

[winter is coming]

6. People are tired of facades. They want the real thing.

I think that's why Bernie's gotten off to a stronger start than expected. He doesn't weasel-word things when he's answering questions and his rhetoric matches his record, going back for decades.