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Skiprr, you're right of course. But I think the turnout, such as it is, is going to be voting against the democrat party as much as they are for anything. These have been the most tumultuous years I can ever remember, and people are HUGELY dissatisfied.......and that is not necessarily good for some republicans either, many of whom have earned the ire of the grassroots.....but it is going to hurt democrats a LOT more than it will hurt republicans.

Obama's ratings are heading down the toilet (SOURCE), and democrats are desperate to avoid any kind of association with him:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... ent-obama/
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And then you've got Wendy Davis trying to shame Abbott over his wheelchair. That's some kind of new low.
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/w ... 11783.html

I've read other articles stating that democrat voters have kind of given up. They are pretty well convinced that they are going to take a terrible beating at the polls this time around. You've even got overtly democrat "journalists" like Chris Matthews lecturing Obama about his immigration policies. The democrats still largely "own" the black vote, but the number of black voters who are disenchanted with Obama's immigration policies is way up....because those policies hurt them perhaps more than anybody else.

And that's the problem for dems, in addition to running against whatever republican candidate they have to face, they are ALSO running against (and away from any association with) Obama.....never mind that he's not running himself. These people are terrified of what admitting they voted for Obama will do to their election chances. For SURE it calls every bit of their judgement into question. The very policies which were supposed to be the democrats' crowning achievements have been DEEPLY divisive and extremely unpopular, even within their own party. As one article I read suggested, if Grimes had answered "yes, I voted for him, but I have been deeply disappointed by the way he has handled some issues", most people would say "well, she's a democrat, so of course she voted for him, and good for her for not being his sock puppet". Instead, what we get this is embarrassing denial.....where she tries to dodge the question......which leads many people, myself included, to conclude that the democrat party is full of lying corrupt "bosses" who are more interested in getting and keeping power than they are in governance. (Mind you, I have to come thing that about the republican party leadership too.)

Another interesting thing about democrat politicians who are running "against Obama" is that it says something about how afraid they are of their own political machine when they can't just come out and say what we all know.....that his presidency has been a disaster and that they regret their vote. If the way republican leadership have dealt with Tea Party grass roots are any indication, I don't blame dems for being afraid of their own party.

Our nation's politics are jacked up beyond all possibility of repair. The glory days of the country are behind us because I truly believe in my heart that no amount of election wins for either party can fix what ails us........and that is a sick and dying culture that desperately needs God.