Reply #154: Here's who stayed home. And it wasn't DU boomers and middle-aged hippy liberals

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http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/polls/#val=USH00p1

It was angry Independents who turned out hard, but not for Dems.

It was called the Jobless Effect.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/07/20/unemployment-fuels-independent-voters-anger/

The party has to find a way re-ignite the AA and youth vote as well, if not most of all.

Look at the turnout. It says it all.

Fixating wrongly on small numbers of DUers who might have declared they were staying home in the mid-terms isn't what happened in the large scheme or what got us what we got in 2010, and continuing to ignore the reality won't be the solution. The same for the single-issue voter straw man IMHO. The problem is of much greater proportion. People are incredibly angry, disenfranchised, fearful and frustrated beyond comprehension across a wide- WIDE- array of issues and very bad directions that have been taken by this admin.

Obama determinedly ignored every sane progressive economist's voice out there for almost 3 years.
They said at every turn "Focus on Jobs. Not deficits!" What did he do? He ordained the Deficit Commission, elevated it to the top national political and media priority and devoted almost a year of his presidency to it. Along with coddling the banksters, ignoring due justice for the Bush-Cheney war criminal cabals, the ongoing perma-wars and our ever expanding National Security State, we continue to reap the consequences of pandering to Republican neofascists. They have been horrible policies, but the excuse making (and liberal bashing at every bad juncture and protestation of it) has been legion. They were horrible directions under Bush. They continue to bleed us dry economically and morally as a nation still now. That's just fact.