Reply #220: 99.9% of Dem base voters don't care about your list [View All]

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Almost no one outside of a few blogs has ever heard of Axelrod's or Emmanual's comments, and probably about 90% of voters don't even know exactly who they are.

Base voters being union members, minorities, women, middle and lower working class, etc.

This is also true of the surge of young voters who put Obama over the top. There was this great post on DK the other day by a middle aged woman who asked her college age kid and his friends, who went all out in 08, about Jane Hamsher's crits of the administration and the response was something like, "who's she?", and the only person who finally remembered who she was said, "oh yeah, her, what's her problem?"

The so called enthusiasm gap is simply the normal mid term lack of vigilance by the people who won last time.

Also, as I see it from my little corner of the woods in Brooklyn, many of us won't vote because we are in 90%+ Democratic districts. There is zero chance my Rep is going to lose. In fact my guess is the rethugs aren't even running anyone.

But the left blogosphere is an echo chamber in which every tiny little play of inside baseball becomes a gigantic affront that is going to "turn off the base."