2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Ok then, Let's spell it out for Hillary "Democrats" [View all]trudyco
(1,258 posts)and he lost. I asked the Hillary person who came by to try to talk me into voting for her what happened at the midterms. It was eerie that out of a house of 4 (3 dem, 1 independent) voters I was specifically singled out for this fellow to try to persuade me.... but anyway, he said that the county next to mine didn't have people turn out. He was really disgusted with those lazy voters.
Honestly I almost didn't vote (for the first time) myself. It's because Obama disappointed me. He did reduce the troops in two stupid wars, bring back the economy 1/2 way (he won't admit the jobs are not the same and there aren't as many) got some of the rich tax breaks to go away partially, etc. But then there were the TPP talks, Keystone Pipeline, not bringing back our privacy, not prosecuting banksters and breaking up banks and not bringing back glass-Steagall, Watered down Healthcare (though it was something), not stopping the bleeding of jobs overseas, not stopping the merger of mega companies and especially he promoted Fracking. We have open space here paid by taxes and now they are vulnerable to Fracking. This is due to our democratic Governor toeing the Obama line. My neighborhood is democratic territory and people don't want Fracking. They want huge investments in renewable electricity and electrical cars, not frackcrap in the air and water and more global warming fodder.
So I'm not surprised people didn't vote. There is some... not so much laziness as that midterm elections don't get the media attention so there are some people who leave midterms off the radar... but there is quite a bit of disenchantment, too. Obama promised a lot more than he delivered. And he started turning to the right as soon as he got into office. Maybe it was the price he had to pay to get his healthcare. IDK. He was such an amazing speaker, very inspiring. I still like him. I just feel so defeated. 8 years of Shrub and Rove and Cheney was exhausting. We had such high hopes when Obama came into office. It's not surprising other people felt there was no difference between the Republicans and Democrats so they didn't bother to vote. I was almost one of them.
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