TIME Poll: Registered Republicans Less Enthusiastic About Voting Than Democrats

[Mark E. Smith]

The G.O.P. also faces a stark drop-off in support from evangelicals and men, according
to a new survey.

Sunday, Nov. 05, 2006

With just three days left until the midterm elections, a new poll commissioned by TIME
shows that Republicans may be approaching voting day without one of the big
advantages they enjoyed in November 2004 - their ability to motivate supporters to go
out and vote. Among registered Democrats polled, 52% say they're more enthusiastic
about voting than usual, compared with just 39% of Republicans. Thirty-seven percent of
Republicans respondents are less enthusiastic than usual, while only 29% of Democrats feel
that way.

Another challenge facing the GOP is a stark drop off in support among what is usually a
core constituency: white evangelical Christians. According to TIME's poll, only 54% of
people in this group favor Republican candidates, with 5% undecided. Thirty-eight
percent of white evangelicals polled say they'll support Democrats. In 2004, exit polls
indicated that 78% of this constituency voted for Bush.

A third factor running against the GOP is an improvement in men's attitude towards
the Democrats. Males provided much of the Bush victory margin in 2004: the President
55% of the male vote while John Kerry won 44%, according to exit polls. For the 2006
midterms, the TIME poll suggests men are almost evenly split, with 43% supporting
Republican candidates and 47%. Women in the TIME poll support Democratic candidates
by a lopsided 59% to 33% for Republicans.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1555024,00.html

[Hekate]

1. They also serve who only stay at home...

This could be the answer to our prayers -- true conservatives feel disgusted, the Talibornagains feel used, and Freepers feel all confused and unloved. Then they all stay home.

:rofl:

Please God please.

Hekate

[goforit]

2. Hell, Not Happy? Repugs don't vote.

[Eurobabe]

3. Good....

n/t

[Judi Lynn]

4. Their votes, either real or Diebold generated, provided such a gift

to a suffering world the last two times, didn't they? So many more people would have had to remain alive to worry about how to "put food on their families," which can be a bummer, so they are all so much better off, after all..... simply dead, they way they found themselves after _Bush's bogus, deceitfully arranged, violent war was launched against them.

As dead people, they also no longer have to worry about how bad it can get if white phosphorous is hurled at them from the sky, or if they will be pulled from their beds, thrown into jail and tortured for years, while their families pray desperately, and wonder if they are still alive somewhere.

They also don't have to puzzle their little brains about how to live with 2 hours of electricity at best per day, no working toilets, no water, no place to hide, no hospitals, no comfort of their familiy members, neighbors, etc.

ETC.

Yeah, Republican leadership driving the entire country has been a real gift from gawd. If they want to take a load off and relax this election, god bless them, they're entitled to it. Look how much good they've done the world already.

[truthisfreedom]

5. rethugs from another planet: E.T. stay home.

Home Alone 2006...

[Liberty Belle]

6. Cool. I'm emailing this to all Republican voters with emails listed at the ROV.

[w4rma]

7. I want a majority of evangelicals voting Democratic. I think evangelical values are more in tune

with Democrats than Republicans as long as they can keep themselves from being conned into voting for people who say they want the government to push one religion over another or one religion's values over others.