Call them, in the old phrase, the silent majority: voters like Ann Quinn, disgusted with Washington, nervous about the future, but so busy getting by day-to-day that the election is almost an afterthought.

A survey published last month in Newsweek found that self-described angry voters — the ones grabbing all the attention — make up about 23% of the electorate. Most of them are Republicans.

As for the rest, many of them are not terribly partisan, though they may lean toward one party over the other. Immigration, earmarks, same-sex marriage, those things that exercise activists, are of little interest. Mainly what they want is for lawmakers to stop bickering and address the problems they deal with on a daily basis, “putting food on the table, gas in their car and … getting the kids through college,” said Democratic pollster Margie Omero.

“They feel they’re living on another planet in D.C.,” said Alex Bratty, a Republican pollster who partnered with Omero on a series of focus groups with women around the country they dubbed “Walmart Moms” to capture their straitened circumstances. “The way they see it is a lot of partisanship, not getting anything done. They ask, ‘Why can’t they compromise?’ “