The “I abstain” vote currently doesn’t hurt the right people (Tom Carper and John Carney) but sooner or later it will. We Democrats just have to keep shunning the politics of GOP-lite.
Here is what Celia Cohen wrote on her blog:
Ken Simpler should probably credit about 200,000 Democratic voters for making him the Republican state treasurer.
They did him a big favor. They stayed home on Election Day.
Excellent news. The Tom Carper product was vetoed by underwhelmed Democrats in search of a Democratic candidate.
Their civic disengagement all but obliterated the structural advantage that belongs to the Democrats in statewide voting here in Delaware.
Such is the inescapable conclusion to be drawn from a new statistical report released last week by the state election commissioner’s office, detailing the Election Day turnout in 2014.
It shows that in a really abominable year for voter participation, the Democrats were even more abysmal than the Republicans. As for the other voters who register so they have nothing to do with the two major parties, just forget about them. It seems they were similarly inclined to have nothing to do with the election, either.
Who may I high five for this lesson in what happens when the Democratic Party runs as a dead husk? How about Pete Schwartzkopf?
In sum, the Republicans made a comeback from virtual irrelevancy, and the Democrats had nobody to blame but their own kind.
“Democrats lost, because the turnout was so low.
Let’s face it, we did not have the most exciting of candidates, not that you wanted to get off your couch and vote for,” said Pete Schwartzkopf, the Democratic speaker.
What a joke. Throwing Brenda Mayrack under the bus is shameful. He is blaming the people worked their assess off to try and offset the debilitating handicap of being part of a political party with no message and a leadership that recruits candidates FROM THE OTHER FUCKING PARTY!!
Schwartzkopf is the worst. This clinches it.