I felt apathetic about this one because the tide was inevitable. The economy is in the shitter and people are disenchanted with Obama. That is the problem with posing a candidate as a demigod; once reality sets in, people will be greatly disillusioned, as most people are with charismatics. Add in a fucked economy, Democrats curled in fetal positions, and Republicans foaming at the mouth, he was doubly fucked.
Not that I sympathize much. A lot of golden opportunities came and went. His summer 2010 performance was baffling - maybe he was aiming to be a character above the fray but he came off as detached from the reality that the majority of Americans were facing.
I am confident he will do better this time around simply because he can no longer afford to, politically. Unless he wants to get devastated in 2012 or worse, kicked out in the primaries.
Republicans just performed Inception on the entire US population. This country is fucked for the next decade.
You act like the democrats have been doing such a great job with the country; they haven't.
It's hard to take someone seriously who didn't feel like looking into the candidates before deciding not to vote since "everyone is the same."
Democrats collectively shat the bed, tis true. But there's a major difference between democrats and republicans, who are going to cut taxes and further expand deficits across the country, attempt to cut benefits, and obstruct even the most basic government functions like confirming federal reserve chairmen.
Lots of people on twitter are saying 4.7% of black people voted. It's actually 10%, which isn't great either. 9% of young people voted. Unemployment is high, the economy is fucked - you'd think the nation's most vulnerable would give a shit what direction the country is going in.
As long as there is Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone, most young people don't give a fuck either way, at least enough to go out and vote.
