Midterm Turnout Down in 2014 (compared to 2010, with clickable map)

By artappraiser on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 10:48am |

New data for the midterm elections show turnout dropped in most states. U.S. News & World Report, Nov.5, 2014

...The differences were especially stark in some states that saw nosedives of crazy proportions. Turnout numbers in Washington, Delaware, Missouri, South Dakota, California and Indiana all dropped by more than 10 percentage points between 2010 and 2014. And although some states made gains in voter turnout (Nebraska, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Maine, to name several), most states dropped. Only 12 states turned out a higher percentage of eligible voters this year than in the last midterms....

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http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2014/11/05/midterm-turnout-decreased-in-all-but-12-states

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Note you can also get a graph by state.

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 10:51am

The Party of Nonvoters
Younger, More Racially Diverse, More Financially Strapped
Pew Research Center, Oct. 31, 2014

As in past elections, nonvoters – those who are either not registered to vote or are considered unlikely to vote in the upcoming midterms – are very different demographically from likely voters....

These demographic differences are not new; similar gaps were seen between the likely electorate and nonvoters in 2012 and 2010. Yet this new analysis, based on an October national telephone survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and a September wave of the American Trends Panel, underscores the vast gulf in financial well-being between voters and nonvoters....

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:15am

I see it every day. They did do pretty good here in Florida.

by trkingmomoe on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 2:26pm

I think there are two very positive trends evident in this latest election.

First, voters have told the Democrats to shut their lying mouths and go away and second and possibly more important more people are rejecting the system completely and shunning our corrupt politicians and their wealthy backers.

This may not be a Boycott Elections Movement yet but it is a growing trend that could disrupt the system and remove public consent from the political Kabuki.

by Peter (not verified) on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 11:55am

How would the removal of public consent disrupt the system? Would the local, state, and federal governments stop collecting taxes? Would the DMV stop issuing drivers licenses? Would the schools close? Would the cops stop enforcing laws? Will we see a complete breakdown of morals and decorum and, god forbid, see masses of people fucking in the streets? Can you give some concrete examples of system disruption that would occur if only 20% of the public voted?

by ocean-kat on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 4:32am

ISIS?

Anarchy: When the governed no longer trust the ties (social contract) that bind

Edit to add .

Anarchy: a state of disorder due to absence or non recognition of authority.

"conditions are dangerously ripe for anarchy"

Killings and rape will become rampant, even in what were believed to be civilized societies.

Will we see a complete breakdown of morals and decorum

@ .51

by Resistance on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 5:02am

In States Seen to Be Tilting Left, Voters Defy Democrats’ Forecast
By Jonathan Martin, New York Times, Nov. 5/6, 2014
[...] the Democratic edge in sophisticated technological voter mobilization and targeting is eroding, as Republicans adopt similar techniques and catch up.

“Democrats have sold this myth about their magic on the ground,” said Brad Todd, a strategist for Mr. Gardner. “But they threw the best they had at us, and it wasn’t enough.”

Tuesday’s results are causing leaders of both parties, and those with their eye on the White House, to re-examine their assumptions about the electoral map [....]

by artappraiser on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 2:18pm

It brought new voters to the table. The eye is on the long term.

by trkingmomoe on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 2:32pm

How much long term will it take, before the people wake up?

Would our present day social order fit the description Debs was talking about?

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs

I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

"Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act" (18 September 1918)

by Resistance on Thu, 11/06/2014 - 3:05pm

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