Day, howion for the enthusiastic are you about voting . 202 5853880. Republicans 202 5853881. Independents 202 5853882. And if youre outside the u. S. , 202 6280184. A very good sunday morning to you. Headlines in the pages today isut voter enthusiasm, here New York Times. The papers in minnesota, the star tribune the mood of voters , chile and uncertain. Gap gives the gop midterm momentum and this story from the wall street journal. Overstate voter enthusiasm, we want to bring in the reporter who wrote that story to talk about the issue of voter enthusiasm. You, heading into tuesday, which group of voters are more enthusiastic . If you look at people who are more enthusiastic come a these are people like men over the age of 50, tea Party Supporters, Senior Citizens across the board. That is particularly interesting because these are groups that skew republican. Excited republicans are or giddy over the fact that they have an enthusiasm advantage. Host is it a clear sign of victory . Guest that is the issue, for years pollsters thought the most reliable indicator was voter enthusiasm during it was considered a proxy for whether your guys would vote. In the wake of the 2012 elections, pollsters are starting to think how reliable a measure that is. It turns out you dont want to overstate it. Host why not . Thedo you interest uninterested to make up for the gap . When pollsters measure voter enthusiasm they ask questions like, how interested are you in voting and for some people the answer may be, not that interested, but because i already made up my mind a month ago. Interested, 5050 and then you dont show up enthusiastic. Host are democrats relying on those voters on tuesday . Guest the interesting thing is people who say i am lukewarm tend to skew more democratic, but people like Younger Voters and hispanics for example. A midtermwe had election in 2010, groups like hispanics and young people showed up as not that interested, but what happened was the electorate ended up expanding, not contracting. More hispanic people voted, more latino people voted than was expected. That is the hope for democrats, people who are not that enthusiastic might turn out and democrats are putting a lot of energy in getting those people to vote. Host i want you to comment on the key quote from your piece in the the wall street journal. I learned unenthusiastic voters count as much as enthusiastic once. Guest that is probably from mitt romneys pollster in two dozen 12, that was one of the things he learned. Back then a lot of republicans thought mitt romney would win, you may remember karl rove getting very excited on Election Night saying president obama can not have one and they learned the hard way. You didnt have to be super enthusiastic to sign the ballot form. In the october 30 edition the wall street journal of. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you. Host were talking about enthusiasm this morning. How enthusiastic are you about voting on tuesday echo tuesday . More polls and the recent numbers, four in 10 voters say they are more enthusiastic about voting this year compared to past elections, 47 say they are less enthusiastic. Are moren voters likely than democrat voters to say they are more enthusiastic. We are getting your thoughts. We will start with ruben calling in from texas on the line for democrats. Anything the republicans are doing, they sit around and dont do anything and blame it on the president. Are enthusiastic to vote against republicans . Caller you bet. Host see are not going to vote for a democratic candidate but to vote against a republican . Caller that is one of the reasons im going out, a few i would like to vote for but the main thing is to vote against republicans. Host how does your level of enthusiasm compared to 2010 . Caller i believe i am more motivated now than i was then. Host mike is in sun city, california for republicans. How does your level of enthusiasm this time around compared to the last midterm . Caller over the moon, i will vote against liberalism which is a democratic hardy. Aregovernment liberals killing this country and i dont see how anyone can fathom voting for the democrats, especially with the Media Service toward the left. It is pathetic. Is the poignant democrats continue to say they are the party of the middle class, but their whole onlosophy is predicated bigger government, more bureaucrats and higher taxes. How does that help the middle class or anybody else . I would think that is what america is running from. This is a nobrainer. Caller you said you are over the moon compared to last time, why so much more enthusiasm . Host because i think caller because i think we are losing our country. Havelite liberal media been running the show the last six years and i think we are losing our country and judeochristian values are under assault him a runaway spending, Big Government liberalism, look at obamacare. Take aamacare did is choice away from the American People. They were picking their own plans that they were comfortable with and took that away from democrats withal that republican vote and gave that to the government to make that decision for them. On twitter, i am not excited to vote i feel both parties are corrupt and i will be voting for libertarians where available. The line for independents, eric is in cedartown, georgia. How enthusiastic are you about voting . Caller im not that enthusiastic about voting because they are blue. Democrat and i am a progressive. When these people get an office they really dont do nothing but carry out conservative values, you cannot tell the difference in georgia between a republican or democrat. Im running away from my president which i love and doing a good job, they should be talking about issues. Office, they do nothing to help us. The judicial system, medicaid expansion, georges population is 30 africanamerican so you have democrats in georgia, they should be talking about white voters not voting democrat because they say georgia is an africanamerican community, people are talking about the hispanic vote but two thirds of the spanish in the United States, there in texas and california. It is not that much they help in getting people elected. State soa red basically the hispanics are crying but they dont vote. Host that is eric in georgia. The 10 keyne of races of the 2014 cycle. Listingington post those races on the handy map here. Colorado,e races are kansas, iowa, kentucky, louisiana, georgia, and North Carolina upon which control of the senate will be decided this week. Lets go to gloria from chicago illinois. Caller good morning. I am a democrat and i voted early and i love what our president is doing for the country, it is a shame he has not had help from the republicans. I would like to know what policies have the republicans put forth. I just want to know that question, if anyone can answer that for me. , i think enthusiastic the democrats will hold the senate. Been president bashing through the media and i dont understand how that could happen when the republicans in congress havent done anything. They flipped the script and put the blame on the president but they havent done anything. We will be talking about the battle for control of the senate breaking down some of the individual races in our next segment of the washington journal. Will be talking with the politics editor of usa today and one of the political correspondence on capitol hill which tracks those races around the country. That is coming up at 7 45. If you have not set your clocks back this morning you can do so, right now as you join us on , we washington journal talking about voter enthusiasm. On our facebook page, linda writes in, not one bit more enthusiastic about voting, just more lies and innuendo. Writes, weob allen cannot get those obstructionists out fast enough after four wasted years they get paid well to not do their job. Follow that conversation on cspan. K. Com we want to hear your phone calls this morning. Frederick on our life for republicans. Enthusiasticvery about voting because i think we will finally be rid of the Obama Administration and their attitude toward hispanics, toward blacks and women. The war on women is a fallacy. All of a sudden their winning all these races and have ads and all the seven states with they say republicans are racist, here is the problem i am a black republican and right now in midland, texas with 3 unemployment and that is because of the oil pool and the cost of fracking, gas is going down all over the country because of fracking and it will put billions of dollars into the economy. But i hear africanamericans from georgia and illinois saying the president is doing a good job, private industry is going to save this country, not a government. We have to get rid of this administration, they have no respect for the American People and they think we are all a bunch of idiots and they can throw slogans at us and we will fall for it. Ive time for a change and been so disappointed in president obama because he talks like a moderate but he is just a liberal. Host in that republicans weekly radio address, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell joined the show to talk about what electing a majority in the terms ofuld mean in ending gridlock in washington, here is what he had to say. It is time for the president to start doing the job he was elected to do, he should worry less about and worry more about healing our country and if the Republican People decide to sent a republican majority to congress we can help ensure that he does. A new republican majority would not mean we could get everything you want from washington, but it would mean we would be able to bring the current gridlock to a merciful end. A will toe will be start sending bills to the president s desk again as the American People expect. Under a new majority our focus would be on passing legislation that improves the economy, that makes it easier for americans to find jobs and helps restore americans confidence in their country and government. Ease the squeeze on working families and improve economic opportunity. We want to make it easier for families to join the middle class and we want to increase Career Prospects for college graduates. A new republican majority would those kindsensuring of policy star getting a vote and set of succumbing to the gridlock. Host Senate Minority leader ofch mcconnell, the talk midterm elections continues on the sunday political talk shows and will feature several members of congress and key leaders of both parties appearing on abcs , you can see the two hillem there on the preview. Also, senator rand paul, one of the most soughtafter sarah gets according to the hill will appear on nbcs the press and other shows. A democrat from minnesota will also appear on cbs. On fox news sunday, mitt romney will join that show. That is coming up later this morning. Get your calls and we are asking you how enthusiastic you are about voting. Caller my enthusiasm is at zero, i had Great Expectations for the administration and i have becomens secondclass citizens in this new world and i feel the American People have become lost in the fray. I decided not to vote for the first time in my life but after the last few days of listening i decided rather than not vote at all i will unfortunately vote republican, because not to vote at all is a vote for the current administration. Host what change in the last few days . Because we finally got to election day or was there a specific debate you heard or add that you saw . Host caller listening to programs like this and other people talk , we would alln come to the same conclusion that there is no one to vote for therefore we will not vote and when it came down to it i thought, the situation when we had perot running, the people had faith in him and in that way someone else got elected that we would not have wanted. In on twitter about the voting, it should be mandatory with a 125 fine if you do not vote. Host kathy how are you echo how are you . Caller im working for the Democratic Party for one particular candidate so i have been going every sunday and i went out sunday this morning. We are targeting potential democratic voters and what i found yesterday, three houses on this block were homeless shelters which i did not know and i dont think the party knew. One of the women i talked to, and iregistered to vote think because the ability to secure transportation, time, etc. Keep people from going to the polls. She said her children feel there is no hope and their vote doesnt count. Then i would walk up another street which is a Residential Home next to a treatment center. They werent on the list but i blackp because i saw a man sitting on the porch and i gave him the information and asked if he was voting and he said no. The dont understand, information has not been provided, because there on promotion ovation, does not mean they cannot vote. We do not reach out to everybody and that is part of the Democratic Partys problem. They are not engaging the people they say they care so much about. Host is it because there is more time and effort spent on campaign ads than trying to engage with people and talk to them oneonone gecko oneonone . Host caller i dont have televisions i havent seen any of that but i think you have to get out and meet them oneonone , all the young people came to the headquarters, here in petoskey it is all people my age, but i dont care what party it is you dont want to disenfranchise anyone. That is not what this country is about. You work in this field, you might interested, later to the show at 8 45 est, talking about getting out the vote in the digital age and how that works with two Political Consultants who specialize in that. Lets go to, kevin from massachusetts on the line for republicans. I am very enthusiastic inc. Resident of massachusetts, and oneparty state, democratic, getting republicans and some of the senate seats, mr. Chapman is running against Martha Coakley not against public, but , buty against coakley anyway i think you giant reset in this country in the way that it is going, in the way of some type of hope and future for the middle class, it has been estimated. Decimated. Ment you have Government Programs that push the middle class the other way. I want to see an upper middleclass, dont cut the rungs on the latter, give it to them so they can climb. I think we need change and a giant reset Going Forward, and bsity not talk and government figures that come , weand lie all the time need a government that wont lie to the people dream wouldnt that be great . How does your enthusiasm compared to the last midterm . I think people are fed up and have had enough of government lies, the theployment reports that the government tells you but people feel and know that it is a giant lie because they are living it. The government throws out false propaganda and people are like, are you kidding . I think we have had enough of this administration. I think we can get some good people in the senate to put bills through, to help people prosper. I just see my local cities decimated with government hopeams and, is this the that this administration brings to young families gecko families . Host as we showed you at the top of the show, president obama was in Wayne State University in detroit, appealing to voters to get out the vote and here is a bit of him explain to voters why they should. [video clip] here is the bottom line, if youre here you are going to vote but i want you to feel the sense of urgency these last three days, the bigger corporations dont need another champion, the wealthy americans dont need another champion, you do. Opportunity for a few is not what michigan is about, opportunity for all is what built the middle class in this country. That is why you have to vote. If you want Something Better you have to vote for it, you have to work for it. Needelieve your families tax breaks not millionaires, you have to vote for it. If you believe we should invest in our childrens schools and give teachers more support and get Early Childhood education in place of people get a good start in life and young people going to college are not burdened with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt, you have to vote for it. [applause] if you think folks who work hard should get an honest days pay for honest work, you have to vote for it. Host president obama yesterday in michigan trying to get voters fired up for the gubernatorial and senate races in michigan. Washingtonece from post. 22 Million People in united tes they broke down some of the numbers and those posting. Women posted more about the election than men in every age overory, women age 65 and were in the high teens or close to 20 of those users on facebook posting about it. You can see the comparison to the middle teen numbers for men in these age groups. Facebook usersed by state. Maine was the most active state inh 19. 8 percent engaging some conversation about the midterm elections in facebook and new york. The least active state, residence using facebook just 9. 3 . We want to engage in conversations with you asking how enthusiastic you are about getting out votes on tuesday. Joe on our line for independent. Caller my enthusiasm a shot. It is not there anymore. I dont know if enthusiasm about voting is the right word, it implies we will not vote, i will vote but morale is low so we vote for people in hope that things will change but they never do. As far as enthusiasm goes, mine i was very enthusiastic and 2010, the Affordable Care act passed in march and i was very enthusiastic that year. Arrivede, the tea party and came on the scene of course, the republicans took over the house and i was feeling pretty good and then two dozen 12 it was either june or july when john roberts decided that the Affordable Care act was a tax issue and broke the tie icing we dont have any business here, that is congress business, even after all the debate my morale went, what