The article titled, "Voters 'Very Enthusiastic' Over Midterm Elections Favor GOP by 20 Points Finds Poll" from Fox News discusses how Americans were very enthusiastic about voting in the 2010 midterm elections overwhelmingly favoring the republican party. Of the 37 percent who said they are very eager to cast their votes in the November elections 57 percent indicated they will vote for a Republican candidate. While 37 percent said they will back a democrat. The article states that those who where going to vote fr a Democrat were only somewhat enthusiastic while others who were going to vote for a republican are very enthusiastic.
This article brings up a lot of issues, first it is stating that republicans are more excited and enthusiastic to vote in the november election compared to democrates. Could that be because republicans cant wait to get a chance to take back the power? Another issue this article brings up is attentive versus inattentive publics. This article is obviously discussing how the attentive public is enthusiastic about voting, but is the article geared towards the attentive public. I think the article is geared towards the inattentive public in that they are trying to get them more involved by stating how enthusiastic the rebublicans are to vote. This makes the inattentive public wonder why?
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This reminds me of the time we talked in class about how if the Republicans boast that they are leading in the polls on election day, it can hurt them later on because then the rest of the Republicans who haven't went out and voted yet will think to themselves, "Oh nevermind, I don't need to go out and vote because the Republican candidate that I was going to vote for is already probably going to win. I will just stay home."
ReplyDeleteI feel like this may happen in this current situation that you brought up. If the Republicans actually want a shot at "taking back the power," they should stop having FOX boast about their hopeful success because it may discourage Republicans from heading to the polls next Tuesday if they believe that their "single vote" won't make a difference because their intended candidate is already going to win.