QUESTION: In the 2010 Congressional elections will you definitely vote, probably vote, not likely vote, or definitely will not vote? <\/p>\n The results were, to put it mildly, shocking:<\/p>\n Voter Intensity: Definitely + Probably Voting\/Not Likely + Not Voting<\/span> <\/p>\n Republican Voters<\/span>: 81\/14 <\/p>\n Independent Voters<\/span>: 65\/23 <\/p>\n DEMOCRATIC VOTERS<\/span>: 56\/40 <\/p>\n Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the 2010 electorate pool. Indeed, Democrats were three times<\/span> more likely to say that they will "definitely not vote" in 2010 than are Republicans\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/p>\n If Democrats do not turn out in high numbers, the GOP will make significant gains in 2010. Change in America is a two step process. First, we need to get rid of the alligators (Republican). Then we need to drain the swamp (DINOs). As frustrated as I am, there can be zero chance for progress if the alligators are reestablished. There is time to turn this trend around but only if Obama and the Democrats stop acting like Republicans, so we need to hold their feet to the fire. Our one saving grace here is that the Republicans are marginalizing themselves to such a great extent, that they\u2019re likely to drive most independents away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have frustrated progressive activists through their failure to live up to campaign promises and their tendency to court the right, while ignoring the people responsible for their election by opening out hearts, our bank accounts, and our labor to them. I had thought that the frustration was limited […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"apathy\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/Oracleof2010Disaster_2795\/apathy.jpg\" "\\"apathy\\"")
<\/a> …But a bigger indicator of peril comes from a new survey question added the DK tracking poll for the first time this week. The poll now includes a rather simple indicator of baseline voter enthusiasm for the year 2010. The question offered to respondents is a simple question about their intentions for 2010:<\/p>\n