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Voter enthusiasm gap - this is nothing new...

President Barack Obama has been leading his opponent Mitt Romney in most polls and stats-geek (I mean that in a good way), Nate Silver of 538.com, is giving Obama a 76.3% chance of winning the election in November. Yet it seems like almost once a day, I either hear or read via a major media outlet that Republican voters are more enthused about this year's election than Democratic ones and/or that Democrats aren't as enthused as they were for the 2008 election. This is nothing new. It is very common for the party that has been out of power in the Oval Office to be the more pumped up of the two parties. This happens almost every time. After two terms of Democrat Bill Clinton, what happened? Let's not forget that Clinton had a pretty high approval rating, especially during his second term. Yet after he held office for 8 years, the Republican voters were more geared up to get a Republican in there to replace him and they did that with George W. Bush. After 8 years of Bush, ag...