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U.S. congressional elections are less than six months away but Democrats are already worried their voters will not be able to match the intensity of Republicans in November. Light voter turnout is the norm in non-presidential election years and its already a concern for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats in 2014. Were going to have to make sure that we are coming out with the same urgency and the same enthusiasm that we typically show during presidential years, he said.Thats what we are going to need. Republicans are counting on dissatisfaction with the president and his signature health care law to drive their voters to the polls, and analyst Charlie Cook said, for the moment, that gives them the upper hand looking ahead to November. Cook said one of the keys to recent midterm elections is that Republican voters are much more likely to turn out than Democrats. Democrats, he said, do much better in presidential election years like 2008 and 2012. In a presidential election year the turnout is big, its diverse and it looks more or less like the country, Cook said. But in midterm elections when the turnout is smaller, it is whiter, it is more conservative, its more Republican. Its just real different. Cook said that Democrats have been trying to turn around the publics negative perception of the Obama health care law, known as the Affordable Care Act. | 
