Almost Fired Up, Almost Ready to Go

Posted on 09/29/2010 at 10:02 am by Bob Cesca

They say the enthusiasm gap is narrowing.

Among likely voters — identified by their past voting history and their high level of interest in the November midterms — 46 percent prefer a Republican-controlled Congress, versus 43 percent who want a Democratic-led one.

That’s a decline (though within the margin of error) from the 49-to-40 percent lead Republicans held in late August.

One thought that’s been festering is that perhaps the Republicans and teabaggers peaked too early — as they did in the healthcare reform debate. I’m still quite pessimistic about November, but there’s plenty of time before election day for the Democrats to blunt the pain.

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  • qwerty

    I agree with your line of thinking in that the tea party may have “peaked too early”. However, as in the health care debate, I think the trend toward more democratic/liberal support is linked to simply more people paying attention (back to school/work, summer vacation over) as the date draws nearer rather than a push by the left to “engage” their side in the debate.Fox News issues its relentless onslaught of propaganda every day and caters to its older, whiter retired base. I think the trend towards support for the Dems is relative to the fact younger working families are now just finding time to assess the issues.

  • ec

    I think that the tea partiers have really turned up the crazy in the last week. I heard one of our local shock jocks on Imus this morning and he sounded like a hyperventilating valley girl.It could be that this has finally hit the point where it is turning folks off.Not to mention that O’Donnell is really making Palin, Rove, and others look bad.I wish that I could muster an ounce of sympathy, but alas, I cannot.

  • Thos

    I’ve been thinking a similar thing, it’s like when the movie industry starts rolling out trailers for movies in january for a movie that doesn’t come out until may. When may comes you start to go “this isn’t out yet?”Obama has just started to really stump now and he needs to tell it like it is, “yes i wish i could do more but when 41 senators will vote as a block and say no to any reform my hands are tied.” Mention that this was the reason that health care wasn’t as good as it could have been, since more people think it didn’t go far enough.

  • eve

    I’m fired up. Obama, Pelosi, Reid and WE have gotten a lot done in two years. But listening to the media and reading online, you’d think NOTHING has changed.Sometimes we complain that the folks in office are too focused on the short term. But when we have so many voters angry or upset that complete change has not happened in TWO years, then it’s no wonder they focus so much on the short term.If we want real change we have to GROW UP and quit expecting everything to happen immediately. We have to endure some setbacks and some disappointments if we are serious about turning this country around.And we have to keep after the folks in office to fight for that change.We can do both. It’s not an either/or.Democrats who choose to support ulta-conservative wackos by not voting are just wrong. Why make things worse?Better to keep after the Dems to do what’s right.

  • Thos

    @eve i agree and my biggest fear is that as a culture with everything becoming so fast and instant everything that patience is going to be a long lost art.