hypocritexposer
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We are barely two weeks into 2013, but already 2014 is shaping up to be an electoral disaster for Democrats. For starters, a total of seven Democratic Senators from states that Mitt Romney carried in 2012 are up for election in 2014. And six of those Senators (Sens. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mary Landrieu, D-La., Max Baucus, D-Mont., Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and Jay Rockefeler, D-W.V.) hail from states that Romney carried by double-digits.
More importantly however, mid-term electorates are vastly different general election electorates. As Thomas Schaller notes, this spells doom for Democrats in 2014:
It’s no mystery why Democrats generally perform better in presidential years while Republicans tend to excel in midterm cycles: Lower midterm turnouts tend to skew the electorate toward older, white and/or more affluent voters. Given the growing cleavage in recent decades between partisan preferences of white and non-white voters, cyclic differences in racial composition are particularly important.
And, Schaller notes, this is particularly troublesome for Democrats at the state level, since “all but nine of the 48 governors with four-year terms are elected in non-presidential cycles, as are the substantial majority of state legislators.”
http://washingtonexaminer.com/morning-examiner-the-democrats-mid-term-problem/article/2518249?custom_click=rss#.UPCdmWd8z1V