This headline from TPM:
Voter Enthusiasm Lower Than Usual In 2014 -- Especially Among Democrats
It breeds a sort of instant response (especially among Democrats) of: And what, please tell, is there to be enthusiastic about?
This is not, however, cause for despair. Another headline, above a story in Government Executive, about another poll, gives one reason to hope:
Poll: Americans Have More Faith in Themselves Than in Uncle Sam
As William F. Buckely Jr. often counseled, quoting Arthur Hugh Clough:
Say not the struggle naught availeth