Legal Commentary

Only 3%

By Big Tent Democrat

Chris Bowers:

Democracy Corps is the only polling outfit currently measuring the specific 2010 Democratic enthusiasm gap. [. . .] What Democracy Corps found is that "drop-off" voters favor Democrats by a whopping 53%-36%. This compares to a narrow, 47%-45% Democratic advantage of likely voters. If drop-off voters were included in the overall sample, Democrats would lead 48%-43%. While this is only one data point, it means that the enthusiasm gap is currently costing Democrats about 3% nationally.

How many seats lost does "only 3%" translate into? 20 in the House? 4 Senate seats? I do not know but find it a curious attitude. Who cares about the drop off is an interesting message to read from Bowers. Hopefully, professional Dems are more worried about it than that.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).