Nearly Half of Americans Don't Care Who's Going to Congress ... In other words .

[MindMover]

We don't give a shit

A pox on both houses. That seems to be the general feeling of almost half of Americans when it comes to a preference on who controls Congress after the 2014 midterms. The latest polling shows a remarkably ambivalent public, many of whom don’t really seem that concerned about even voting in the first place.

According to the Associated Press, a recent poll about the upcoming election has people preferring that Democrats get control of Congress at 37 percent, Republicans at 31 percent, and another 31 percent saying they have no preference at all. Furthermore, only 53 percent care “a good deal” about who wins

As the article notes, a great deal of the apathy is a rather normal state when it comes to a midterm election. After all, voter turnout is traditionally much lower than it is during a presidential election, with a mere 40 percent of eligible voters turning up to cast a ballot.

That’s a tragedy. Midterms can make or break a country, as we saw during the 2010 GOP sweep. There are many life changing reasons to vote in this midterm, and yes, it really does matter which party controls Congress.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/23981-nearly-half-of-americans-dont-care-whos-going-to-congress-and-thats-a-bad-thing

[Kelvin Mace]

1. Power in this country

is decided by a VERY small minority of the total population.

And our political masters like it that way.

And thus we get the government we deserve.

[Cosmocat]

2. THIS is the end game for the republicans

apathy works to their favor, cause their core is always more reliable going to the polls.

Disenfranchise/disinterest as many as possible and win the war of attrition.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. Many ppl increasingly view the 2 Big Parties as a choice btwn Plain Vanilla & French Vanilla

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. People are too busy trying to make money to think about Congress

For all sorts of reasons people are too tired, worn to be stimulated to vote. This is a terrible situation. We have a lot of work ahead of us until November

[JayhawkSD]

5. "Midterms can make or break a country, as we saw during the 2010 GOP sweep."

Or it can mean essentially nothing, as we saw when the Democrats took control of both houses of Congress in 2006 and, instead of ending the war in Iraq as promised, gave us "The Surge," renewed the Patriot act, gave us the Military Commissions Act, provided immunity for the telecom industry...

I would say the apathy is pretty well justified.

[daschess1987]

6. K&R

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