Voters Turn Their Backs On Both Democrats, Republicans As Election Nears

Only some of the teabaggers are the Religious Right.  Others are the fringe disenfranchised right.  Still others are disenfranchised Independents/Libertarians who tend to vote for Republicans each election.  What they all have in common is that they're the Republican base that gets activated every election cycle.

There are about 306 million Americans, of which about 100 million of us vote.  50 million Americans are children, underage, ineligible to vote.  The other half of America doesn't vote.  Political parties try to expand their membership, but it's an expensive and difficult proposition.  They spend their resources on identifying where likely voters are for targeting (and where voters who are likely to vote for their party hang out for the sales pitch).  

Democrats traditionally have found college and university campuses to be good places for recruitment.  But our modern American lifestyle doesn't lend itself to steady and consistent watering holes where we gather past our university years.  We get in our cars, we drive to work, we go home and a few places in between.  

In the 1980s, Ralph Reed figured out that a natural constituency existed that hadn't been tapped before.  Sitting ducks for Republicans.  Evangelical Christians, who can be found and pitched to at least once a week in their churches.  He told Rove that he could reliably deliver them to the Republican Party and has been doing so ever since. 

Democrats could get a whole heII of a lot further with recruiting new Democratic voters if they stopped behaving like politicians and start shooting straight and speaking honestly to the American people.  More people voted in the 2008 election, for Obama and Democrats, than have ever voted before in the history of the country.  More new and more returning voters voted for a black man in good old r@c!st USA because they believed he was going to change the way Washington did business.  They believe that Obama & Democrats were going to kick corporations and their lobbyists out of Washington.  

Obama l!ed, he's been continuing most of the Bush-Cheney policies (and going even beyond what Bush and Cheney ever dared to do), and that's why voters are turning their backs on both Democrats and Republicans.
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