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What is Driving the Polls? | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: What is Driving the Polls? (4.00 / 4)

"Rarely do we see any analysis of what is causing this erosion in support."

I can't speak for everyone in the party, and pardon me for sounding like a broken record, but i will give you my point of view as someone who has voted for the democrats in every election except one (clinton, second term).

i am seeing a Party that isn't leading. I'm watching decades of promises about health care become one watered down compromise after another. that makes me feel like i was lied to. when i get emails from OFA telling me to say "thank you to Jim Cooper", i feel like party doesn't really understand.

I'm seeing bailouts of big banks, and very little for main street. In fact, i watched congress shrink the stimulus (and wasn't that supposed to be for us regular people) while there seemed to be nothing the banks wanted that was too much. That makes me feel like corporations are more important than my community.

Not everyone pays attention to the civil liberties stuff, and maybe that's my bete noir, but I'm not seeing the restoration of the rule of law that was such a prominent feature of the campaign. That makes me feel like the Democratic Party maybe isn't that concerned with freedom and liberty.

I could go on, but you get the gist. Meanwhile, you have the Republican rump and their enablers making a big show of protesting all this "government over-reach", in effect riling up the independents the way Obama did in 2008.

I'm as happy as anyone that grampa and the crazy lady didn't win, but I am damn disappointed that that seems to be all my vote accomplished.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Thu Nov 12th, 2009 at 01:39:46 PM EST

Adding (4.00 / 2)

i hope everyone reads Hunter's new piece at Daily Kos, "The Corporate Empire Strikes Back: Corporate Dems Seek alternative to Public option. Again."

You know, seriously -- we all know that a sizable chunk of Democrats in the Senate don't want to fix America's healthcare problem. We all know perfectly well that they consider it a threat to their corporate cash, and that in the end they don't give a flying damn about fixing anything about the fiasco that passes for healthcare in this country, so long as they can do some bare, pissant substanceless nothing that can allow them to write up a nice victory message on their next voter pamphlet and get the hell on with their day.
But by far the thing that is most infuriating is that the Democrats don't even try to hide it very much.

THAT is what is driving the polls down, or at least part of it. It is not just turning their backs on decades of promises on health care, which is disgraceful enough, but they are literally jamming it right up the Democratic base's collective nose, almost proudly. I don't know what's driving what seems like a pathological instinct to piss off the voters that put them in power: maybe it's the incumbent re-election rates that Glenn Greenwald points out "rival those of the Politburo in the Leonid Brezhnev era", but whatever it is, it smacks of hubris, makes a joke of the concept of accountability (another prominent campaign slogan for Dems), and looks incredibly ugly.

and mark my words, anyone who even bothers to listen to or watch the news sees this. What message do you think they are taking away from this?

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

by brendan on Thu Nov 12th, 2009 at 03:34:34 PM EST
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Re: What is Driving the Polls? (none / 0)

I see all that because I hang out with progressives, but the polls simply don't support it. Dems have the same level of support for their elected leaders that they had in July. It's the independents who are moving to the right. But they're moving to the right in large part because former Republicans are joining their ranks in droves. The Gallup Poll is still an outlier in terms of overall support, but it agrees with the other polls in terms of relative support for the Dems eroding only among independents.

by BooMan on Thu Nov 12th, 2009 at 03:43:17 PM EST
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What is Driving the Polls? | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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