Given the recent SOCUS ruling on election ads all bets are off as far as i see. The massive impact of direct advertising by corporations will just overwhelm anything else.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anti-incumbent mood seems to be the order of the day, though it is > rather too early to know what's going to happen in November. Both > parties, and definitely Congress, have very poor favorable/unfavorable > ratings right now. > > People who voted for Democrats in the last election want to see the > majority used to do *something*. Thus far that hasn't happened very > much. People who didn't vote for Democrats last election don't have > any good reason to reward them for their behavior thus far. > > It's a partisan atmosphere. People who are hard core Democrats or > Republicans will be out to push their representatives in one direction > or another. A lot of independents and less-political voters will be > apathetic and not turn out or else vote against whoever is in office > because they are sick of it. > > 2010 is a non-Presidential year which has lower turnout, > traditionally, anyway. Add in a lot of unfavorable ratings for both > political parties and I think you'll see a substantially lower turnout > overall. Which means that the people who are going to win are the ones > who are successful at motivating their base and getting them to the > polls. > > Judah > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:31 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ...if voters feel the money was wasted, those currently in office >>> (everyone, not just one side of the aisle or the other) should be >>> concerned in the upcoming elections. >>> >>> http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/01/25/poll.stimulus.money/index.html >> >> Traditionally - false. >> >> That said, the recent elections seem to indicate that more (or perhaps >> a different subset) of the population is paying attention to issues >> and acting/reacting based on their beliefs. If that's the case then >> we may very well see a round of anti-incumbent elections in 2010 and >> 2012. >> >> Hatton >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:311123 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
