On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
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>> Shane: How stupid can you get? The Dumbos were trashed be their
>> 2008 voters by *not voting*.
>>
>> Somebody: Both you and Alan seem to subscribe to the view that
>> there's a vast reserve army of nonvoters silently waiting to be
>> mobilized by a true left-wing leader. I wish that this were true,
>> but I prefer to stick to the empirical data rather than to what's
>> ideologically comfortable.
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> This year's voters were whiter, righter, and older than the last
> crop, there's no doubt about that. I agree about the untapped
> reservoir's essential nonexistence though.
We're talking about the reservoir that Obama tapped in 2008. Talking about "historical" midterm turnout is simply hiding under Mainstream Punditry
Shane Mage
"All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods are for gold and gold for goods."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90