Democrats to try to repeat their 2012 message

CBS News:

Senate Democrats this week laid out their legislative and political agenda for this year, making it clear they hope to replicate the electoral success they saw in 2012 by focusing on economic issues that impact the middle class. They expect their economic message to trump the Republicans' large focus on Obamacare.

"We picked up seats in the Senate, we carried the presidency by a large amount" in 2012, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said. "The American people, the majority aren't affected by Obamacare. They want to hear what we're going to do for them -- just go back and look at the 2012 election."

It's unclear whether Democrats will be able to sufficiently mobilize their 2012 supporters -- the CBS News poll released this week shows that Republican voters are clearly more energized about this election. What's more, Senate Democrats this year are defending seats they won in 2008 -- a breakthrough year in which Democrats won eight seats, the most they'd won since 1986.

"They won in a lot of red states that are doing to be difficult to defend this year," RealClearPolitics national political reporter Scott Conroy said in a conversation with CBS News elections director Anthony Salvanto. Democrats have to defend seven Senate seats in states that Mitt Romney carried, he pointed out, while they have only two clear opportunities to pick up seats (in Georgia and Kentucky).

"In the sixth year of a presidency it's... very tough for that president's party to win in midterm elections," Conroy added.

That's especially true given the coalition that Democrats built in 2012, notes Geoffrey Skelley of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. Young people played a crucial role in President Obama's re-election, but data shows that for more than three decades, younger voters don't turn out for midterm elections the way they do for presidential elections.
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There is also the fact that young people have begun to realize just how badly they were screwed by Obamacare.  That puts them on the side of Republicans who are campaigning on the flaws of the Democrat big government agenda.  There is also the realization on the part of many of just how fraudulent the Democrat 2012 campaign was.