Guy Benson:
Many on the Left have sought to diminish the midterm election results, citing low voter turnout to throw cold water on the notion that Republicans won a mandate in their Election Night romp. President Obama himself attempted to address the electoral results through this prism, going out of his way to note that ‘two-thirds’ of voters failed to cast ballots in his first post-election press conference:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/lRnjNamD0iI[/youtube]Liberals’ preferred story instantaneously shifted from “there will be #NoWave,” to “that wave doesn’t really count because no one voted.” Obama’s message implied that a small minority of Americans threw his party out of office, while many people stayed home out of disillusionment with politics in general. Three pieces of empirical data debunk this narrative. Item one:
In battleground SEN/GOV states, turnout only down 30.5% from '12 presidential. In non-btlgrd states, down 44% http://t.co/UOWyRPnFBR
— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) November 18, 2014
In other words, turnout was substantially higher in contested, ‘battleground’ races — which Republicans practically swept. Especially at the statewide level. The GOP won nine out of the top ten contested Senate races, and even made Virginia extremely close. The party performed extremely well in gubernatorial contests, too, netting three. Heated races produced higher turnout…and Republicans carried the day. Item two:
Got that Greg?
But Obie said it was — and that settles the matter!
@Ditto:
Right and since when do the demo-COMMUNISTS have any trouble getting their zombie base to turn out and get bribed to vote and show up from the graves – esp only 4 days after Halloween?
Didn’t have any trouble getting them out for the MS Republican cross-over primary.
For your entertainment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEqh07E4dY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k
@Budvarakbar:
Did you even see the November election results? Democrats lost greatly. The use of vote fraud does not contradict the WSJ quote regarding non-voters. A fraudulent vote is still a vote and is often counted where the Democrats have their sway.
Democrats simply didn’t get enough fraudulent votes to win in November, hence why Emperor Obamatine presented his royal decree. By fighting voter ID initiatives, Obama is confident that these waves of still illegal aliens will sign up to vote through “motor voter” and win the 2016 Elections (and many after) for Democrats.