Via Washington Examiner:
President Obama issued another plea to Democratic supporters that they mobilize for the 2014 elections in order to avoid a repeat of the 2010 “shellacking” created by the Tea Party wave.
Obama described Democrats as having a “congenital disease” that depresses turnout in off-year elections. “We tend to drop off during midterms. That’s what happened in 2010,” he said Thursday. “So I am going to need everybody here to feel the same sense of urgency as so many of you showed when I was running in 2008 and 2012.”
Democrats have been candid about the need to motivate their supporters this cycle. “The fundamental notion is that lower turnout means that we’ll lose, and so we’ve got to drive it up as much as possible,” Democratic National Committee spokesman Mo Elleithee told reporters in March — but a new Pew poll suggests they have failed to do so thus far.