Losing their religion

MANIFESTO

In a post that has a number of liberal bloggers all atwitter, Steve Singiser reports that

Two in five Democratic voters either consider themselves unlikely to vote at this point in time, or have already made the firm decision to remove themselves from the 2010 electorate pool. Indeed, Democrats were three times more likely to say that they will "definitely not vote" in 2010 than are Republicans.

I suppose this adamancy should be a bit of a surprise, but there sure were a lot of people in 2008 who bought into BO's rhetoric regarding change, and there sure seems to be a lot of people who are seeing little but more of the same.

I certainly won't fail to vote next year (After all, Connecticut has a rather interesting senatorial vote coming up.), but I also don't foresee much change in the attitude of the Executive Branch in that time. Thus, I'd think that the numbers cited above may well hold.

Steve Benen can kvetch all he wants about this situation, but the truth of the matter is that even if Republicans fail to regain a great number of legislative seats, it probably won't make any difference regarding the lack of passage of progressive legislation.