The 2/3 of the electorate stayed home meme

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"The 2/3 of the electorate stayed home meme"

Incorrect.

In any context, with regard to any given population, 36.6 percent is in no way 'representative' of that population.

With such low voter turnout, therefore, it is idiocy on the part of the partisan right to infer that the 2014 Midterms are an 'endorsement' of failed, errant conservative dogma, or a 'rejection' of policies advocated by democrats.

For republicans to argue that the outcome of an election favorable to them with only a third of voters responding is a 'mandate' for their policies clearly fails as a fallacy.

 

[LeftofLeft]

The Left keep bringing this up as if to discredit the Republican takeover of the Hill and many Gubernatorial seats throughout the Nation. What does this say? The Democrat base stayed home? Why? Liberals are sure that most of them were Democrats that stayed home and not Conservatives that would have made it more of beatdown? Are Liberals sure that the Democrats who stayed at home were not oppressed?

 

[toxicmedia]

Bottom line: The "2/3rds of the electorate didn't vote meme" is a sloppy attempt to create the idea that 36% in a midterm election is an abnormally low turnout when it isn't.

The reason Republicans won more votes in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

Obama and his media lapdogs are free to mislead and spin, but the people who count, VOTERS, already know the deal. They gave him a cold slap in the face.......

That's just unsupported denial.

 

[Zander]

Obama was clobbered. He'll spend the next 2 years floundering even more than the last si

Bottom line: The "2/3rds of the electorate didn't vote meme" is a sloppy attempt to create the idea that 36% in a midterm election is an abnormally low turnout when it isn't.

The reason Republicans won more votes in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

Obama and his media lapdogs are free to mislead and spin, but the people who count, VOTERS, already know the deal. They gave him a cold slap in the face.......

That's just unsupported denial.

Invest in a mirror....

 

[toxicmedia]

Obama was clobbered. He'll spend the next 2 years floundering even more than the last si

Bottom line: The "2/3rds of the electorate didn't vote meme" is a sloppy attempt to create the idea that 36% in a midterm election is an abnormally low turnout when it isn't.

The reason Republicans won more votes in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

Obama and his media lapdogs are free to mislead and spin, but the people who count, VOTERS, already know the deal. They gave him a cold slap in the face.......

That's just unsupported denial.

Invest in a mirror....

But young people and minorities didn't turn out.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Obama was clobbered. He'll spend the next 2 years floundering even more than the last si

Bottom line: The "2/3rds of the electorate didn't vote meme" is a sloppy attempt to create the idea that 36% in a midterm election is an abnormally low turnout when it isn't.

The reason Republicans won more votes in 2014 — is that voters wanted Republicans in office, not that minorities and young people didn’t turn out to vote.

Obama and his media lapdogs are free to mislead and spin, but the people who count, VOTERS, already know the deal. They gave him a cold slap in the face.......

That's just unsupported denial.

Invest in a mirror....

But young people and minorities didn't turn out.

Which is why the election results aren't representative of voters as a whole.

Note that no one is contesting the outcome of the election or its legitimacy – the democrats lost and deserved to lose, the consequence of their failure to get out the vote.

What's at issue, however, is the incorrect inference on the part of republicans that the outcome of the election manifests as an 'endorsement' of republican policies, which it is not, nor is it a 'rejection' of democratic policies.