The Media Says You're Not A "Likely Voter." Prove Them Wrong.

Are you progressive? Young? Person of color?

Well, then the pollsters say you are not a "likely voter."

And the media thinks if you are not a pollster-approved "likely voter" - even though the pollsters themselves can't agree what exactly makes you a pollster-approved "likely voter" -- then you don't much matter.

But at the end of Election Day, pollsters don't decide who votes. You do.

If you participate on a social network like Facebook or Twitter, go to OurFuture.org/votingfor, and download the profile picture graphic of your choice that says "I'm voting" and what progressive issue you're voting for.

Why is it important to state your intentions now?

Because the media narrative regarding what this election is about is already being written.

And it's being written based on these deeply slanted polls, which Republican pollster Kristen Soltis recently warned have been oversampling conservatives relative to historical voting patterns.

Politico even went as far as to judge President Barack Obama's re-election prospects in 2012, based on its assumption of who are "likely voters" in 2010.

And Rachel Maddow last night trashed her media brethren for repeatedly peddling the conservatives' desired narratives that the elections are about slashing the deficit and restraining government, when there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Sometimes voters make a point to prove media narratives wrong. But other times, media narratives can become self-fulfilling prophecies, deflating voters into thinking that a result is pre-ordained, and their votes won't matter.

Your vote always matters. It's up to us to remind the media of that fact now.

Go to OurFuture.org/votingfor, and speak up.

 

 

 

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Comments

[Leah Watts]

06:16 PM on 10/21/2010

We have no alternative, which is why we have to vote. For the ones who've sulked the loudest on the Left, I quote Bill Maher: Grow up and vote.

[Welib]

03:24 PM on 10/21/2010

I don't know anyone that is going to sit home when we stand the chance of losing our country and our elections to outside interests buying the selling our right wing politicians.

We will vote Dem to keep our jobs in the USA.
We will vote Dem to keep our social safety net programs for our people.
We will vote Dem to keep our country from outside influence.
We will vote Dem so our country's business can move forward and we can finally recover.
We will vote Dem TO KEEP THE REPUBLICANS FROM SELLING OUR JOBS AND OUR COUNTRY TO THE HIGHEST FOREIGN BIDDER.

VOTE DEMOCRAT IN NOVEMBER. AND TELL THE GOP THE USA IS NOT FOR SALE.

[carester]

02:35 PM on 10/21/2010

Yesterday, my husband and I voted. I don't know if this is relevant or not, but almost everyone in the line were old people. Is it good or bad for us Democrats?

[Donna Skinner]

02:58 PM on 10/21/2010

Well according to all the so-called pundits this would be bad news for democrats because older people vote Republican...I can't for the life of me understand why but they do.

[carester]

04:47 PM on 10/21/2010

It could be; however, we voted at around mid-day, so I assume that not many working-aged people would be voting at that time in the first place. We'll see. Election day is almost upon us :-)