Enthusiasm Gap Could Be The Difference in Election 2012
It has been called the "enthusiasm gap" and it represents the difference in the potential to get out and vote enthusiasm between Obama supporters and Romney supporters.
Dr. Merrill Matthews writes at Forbes.com that the gap could be the difference in next week's election. Two years ago I wrote here that the 2010 election would be one for the history books. Voters across the country couldn’t wait to cast their vote against President Obama and his policies. Of course, that was an indirect vote, since Obama wasn’t on the ticket. This time he is, and the “I can’t wait to vote” sentiment is even stronger.
Those voters who protested against ObamaCare in the summer of 2009, when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi was trying to push the health care bill through the House before the August recess, haven’t gone away or changed their minds.
Those who filled their congressman’s town hall meetings in August of 2009 haven’t gone away either. Rather, what have gone away are the town halls; very few Democrats actually conduct them anymore.
Those who marched down Pennsylvania Avenue on September 12, 2009, also haven’t gone away or changed their mind. But without the luxury of a labor union to pay their salaries while they protest, those patriotic Americans couldn’t take any more time from their jobs and families.
And, those who opposed ObamaCare when it passed by hook or by crook—or both—are still opposed to it. Rasmussen has polled the public’s desire to see the law repealed every week since it passed in March of 2010. In virtually every week between 51 and 58 percent say they want the law repealed.
The rest of Dr. Matthews insightful article can be found here.
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