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2014-10-13 Home Front: Politix

NBC: Americans More Focused on Ebola, ISIS News than Midterm Elections

If you're even a casual news consumer, you know that the spread of Ebola, the U.S. airstrikes against ISIS and major security breaches within the Secret Service have dominated media coverage over the last week as Americans mull the safety of their families, U.S. soldiers, and the President himself.

One thing that Americans are collectively rolling their eyes at, though: the upcoming midterm elections, now just 27 days away.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center shows that Americans just aren't particularly interested in the midterms, with only 15 percent saying they’re following election news "very closely," and nearly one-in-four saying they're not paying attention at all. Compare that to 36 percent who are paying close attention to the Ebola story, 31 percent concerned about the ISIS strikes, and 21 percent closely following the mistakes of the Secret Service.

While low interest in the elections may only be surprising to politics nerds, these numbers still worth noting – because they're even lower than in the past two midterm cycles. At around this time in 2006, for example, 21 percent of Americans said they were following the elections very closely. And in 2010, when a major wave swept a new class of Tea Party acolytes into office, a quarter of the public was tuned in.

Posted by Pappy 2014-10-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

It's not even safe to get out and vote in St. Louis. We got the Ebrola thing, and even if we survive that, the cops might shoot us. Better just forget about the election for now. It wouldn't be fair.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-10-13 02:14|| 2014-10-13 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The concept of covering up one disaster with another as a distraction is eventually there are too many distractions to juggle.

One of the organization problems discovered in the early years of the National Training Center was that organizations who's leadership at garrison practiced micro-management and 'mother may I' leadership would reach a point in tactical operations that incoming intel and events could not be dealt with as it overwhelm the commander. Saturated with decisions that could not be delayed or put off, with a staff and subordinates who were not trusted or trained or groomed for independent action, events generated by the OPFOR would overwhelm the ability of the leader to act quickly and decisively enough to allow assets to be applied with decisive or even mitigating effect.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-10-13 09:38|| 2014-10-13 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 St. Louis is close to Ferganistan--right?

Posted by JohnQC 2014-10-13 12:16|| 2014-10-13 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Setting up the excuses for the Dems poor performance The people were distracted! Yeah, that's the ticket!""

Posted by OldSpook 2014-10-13 16:14|| 2014-10-13 16:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe they should be thinking about the affect our open borders have on those two issues. And then vote.

Posted by Bobby 2014-10-13 19:48|| 2014-10-13 19:48|| Front Page Top

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