Are repubs just quieter than Democrats in general?

[BoWanZi]

I'm just not one to be confident like a lot of others here. I always feel like i'm on pins and needles when it comes to election season.

So what I'm wondering about is this, are repubs just not as vocal during election season? I have a few conservative/repub friends on Facebook and they hardly post any political views whatsoever but on the other hand, almost all of my liberal friends are always poking fun at romney and his campaign and making strongly worded and well thought out essays about the issues.

I just worry that there is a sleeping giant that is about to be woken and that scares me. I just want to be reassured that Obama should have this in the bag, I mean after the summer, he was a shoe-in (shoo-in?) to win but now I'm getting kind of scared.

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1. Go to the Yahoo comment sections

You'll find all the right-wing crap you would ever care to read, and just in the time you read this message, 100 new idiotic comments have been posted.

[BoWanZi]

9. I guess because I don't go to places like that, that I don't see it but point taken

I just hang out here and read and mostly lurk. I don't go to different right wing websites so I'm not exposed to the crap. I do notice that when I hear a conservative being vocal in the media, its usually because of their stupidity in saying something really dumb.

I just have noticed how the liberals on my facebook seem to be much more vocal and outgoing compared to the conservatives. I know that is an incredibly small demographic but it still worried me since I wondered if the conservatives were just being very quiet and waiting til election day to come out.

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11. You're not missing anything... the right-wingers simply echo whatever was said

on Fox, Limbaugh, etc. All of them say the same things... the same wording and all... it's like they believe if it is typed a million times then it becomes the truth...

[leftofcool]

2. Yes but probably not for the reasons you think.

Ask yourself why you don't see Boner, Cantor, McConnell etal out in full force. GOP, wrong on foreign policy, wrong on the economy and wrong on just about everything else. Not a good idea for them to say much, unless it's over at freeperville.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Sounds like the Trinity of Traitors

[leftofcool]

10. Or the trifecta of trash

[Fumesucker]

4. Where I live if you hear someone ranting about politics in public it's a right winger

Try any newspaper comment section and you'll be inundated with right wing views.

And as another poster said, Yahoo is utterly full of right wing yahoos.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. You're forgetting 2010. Teapublicans were out in force and VERY vocal

because they sensed blood in the water when Liberals were getting disenchanted with President Obama for working too slowly and who didn't appear to them as being lefty enough.

So the answer to your question is - NO.

I surmise the reason why they're quieter now is because they see the internals, too, and know they're going to lose BIG TIME come November. Don't worry, though. They'll be out in force come mid-term elections in 2014 again because they know Democrats, for some stupid reason, have the tendency to forget there are more elections than just presidential elections and too many still don't vote outside of them. I hope that will change each mid-term elections, but so far, I haven't seen any evidence of it.

[tarheelsunc]

6. Republicans are a vocal minority.

[aandegoons]

7. I am guessing

The smarter ones know they look like idiots and racist when spouting republicant talking points.

[randome]

8. If you can't be convinced by subjective opinions, consider this fact.

The demographics have reached a tipping point. Old, white men are a fading minority. They will whine and fight all the way down but there is nothing that can keep them in power any longer absent armed insurrection.

And old, white men do not typically go in for that sort of thing.

[bluestate10]

12. I completely disagree. The right-wingers that I know are noisy.

I know only of one and maybe a second that are quiet and don't say much, and one of them may be an Obama supporter.

[jackbenimble]

13. Not in my experience.

In fact, just the opposite.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. Old school conservatives? I'd say they're ashamed to be associated with the new GOP.

However, the Teabaggers are extremely vocal. They're spreading their meme of hate and ignorance to any person who can't run fast enough to get away.

Which may account for the embarrassment of the old school conservatives. I'd be ashamed too if my party were the party of birthermadness, disenfranchising voters, election fraud, lies & the destruction of the middle class.

[Egalitarian Thug]

15. No, just illiterate. n/t