PEW Poll: Democrats More Eager to Vote, But Unhappy with Party

Democrats More Eager to Vote, But Unhappy with Party
Gay Marriage, Inheritance Tax Among the Lowest Public Priorities

Summary of Findings

With less than five months to go before Election Day, Democrats hold two distinct advantages in the midterm campaign that they have not enjoyed for some time. First, Americans continue to say they favor the Democratic candidate in their district, by a 51% to 39% margin. Second, the level of enthusiasm about voting among Democrats is unusually high, and is atypically low among Republicans. In fact, Democrats now hold a voter enthusiasm advantage that is the mirror image of the GOP's edge in voter zeal leading up to the 1994 midterm election.

Public anger with Congress continues to rise, and anti-incumbent sentiment has reached new highs, according to the latest survey of 1,501 Americans conducted June 14-19 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The sour public mood currently favors the minority party, as 46% of Democratic voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, compared with just 30% of Republicans. In October 1994, Republicans held a comparable advantage on this measure (by 45%-30%).



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vote, but Democrats need to give Democratic voters more of a positive message as to why they should vote for Democratic candidates.

If the only choices one has are those that favor corporate interests such as the GOP and DLC, voters may be willing to go vote but have no one to vote for.

Last I saw it was not Dems pushing Gay Marriage Ban. Instead they were pushing Iraq withdrawal and minimum wage increase.

for the ban on gay marriage and flag burning. Because of these "moderate" Dems the bans have bi-partisan support.

So support the gay bashing non flag burning Dems all you like. My vote goes to candidates who do not hide their GOP-like faces behind Democratic masks.

Vote for whoever you want.

But a strategic vote TO GET REPUBLICANS OUT OF POWER AS COMMITTEE CHAIRS may make a hell of a lot of sense.

Especially if you want to see BUSHCO get investigated

and you do not want to see the Congress wasting our time with these NONSENSE KARL ROVE distractions.

Then I will be happy to deal w the ^ssinine Dems, because I guarentee those little toads will be in the minority.

It is not enough to say that you will vote for anyone with a D rather than a R in front of their name. They have to stand for something. OK take over the committees but what are you going to do with them?

If all you do is perpetuate the middle of the road government and not address the real needs of the working class than IMHO you might just as well be a re pub.

I am prone to not vote if my choice is a Dem "re pub lite" and a re pub and I know there are many like me. After years and years of no progressive voice in this government, people get tied and turn inward and find other ways to make their marks.

I want to get out of Iraq. Practically speaking this will only happen with a Dem majority in congress,

I am all for building a progressive Democratic party. And do what I can to help the most progressive dem candidates in the primaries.

But I am not for doing anything in 2006 that will prolong Republicans in Power