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In reply to the discussion: Where's the Democratic Party's "vision for the future"?? [View all]frylock
(34,825 posts)sorry to blow holes in your bullshit narrative, but what you claim is the opposite of what actually happened.
Democrats Try to Crack Mystery of the Missing Voters
A popular theory of this year's midterm election holds that Democrats took a shellacking in part because big chunks of the party's core liberal base, discouraged at the path of the Obama administration, stayed home rather than show up to vote as they did in 2008.
It's an interesting narrative. It also doesn't appear to be entirely accurate.
While it's correct that some key parts of the Democratic coalitionyoung voters and African-Americans among themdidn't perform as they did in 2008, evidence emerging as the dust settles from this month's election suggests the bigger hole in the side of the Democratic ship came from moderates in the political center who didn't show up. (Those absences were in addition to the wave of independent swing voters also from the center who, exit polls showed, turned out but switched their votes to the Republicans.)
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