Pissed at President Obama? Feel Like Skipping 2014?

[Art_from_Ark]

193. Once again,

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It is NOT the die-hards who sit out mid-term elections-- it's the mushy middle-- the people who have no particular allegiance to either political party, they just go where the political winds blow them. If the election doesn't enthuse them, they sit it out. Or they vote for the other party because they don't like the way things are going. It's been that way for more than a century.

And in case you didn't notice, nationwide, more people cast ballots for Democratic candidates for Congress in the last election, than for Republican candidates. And yet, the Republicans *still* control the House.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-16/republicans-can-t-declare-mandate-with-more-democrat-house-votes.html

And in some places, like Arkansas's 3rd district, we didn't even have the option of voting for a Democratic candidate for Congress, since he dropped out a couple of months before the election. On top of that, there were no statewide races last year in Arkansas-- just President, representative, and legislative and county offices. Obama didn't have an ice cube's chance in Arkansas, which is one of those states that used to be solidly Democratic but now has a great mushy middle. So while the die-hards like me tried their darndest to vote for Democratic, or at least, non-Republican candidates, we did not have a whole lot of choices. It's hard to get fence-sitters motivated to vote in an election like that. And while that was a presidential year election, in many states it is like that in mid-term elections if there are no statewide or Senate races.