MA Poll: Voters Are Angry, But At What?
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by DemFromCT
Sat Jan 23, 2010
The conventional wisdom (one way you know it's wrong is that everyone repeats it) is that Democrats lost in MA because the voters rejected their policies and also rejected big government. It's so easy to say so that you can find articles like this everywhere (this one is from Scott Brown and Bob McDonnell's pollsters):
Apparently, the Democrats thought people had voted for them because of their agenda -- an agenda they really hadn't bothered to share with the electorate in the first place. And now, the party's bungling has resulted in the highest disapproval rating in Gallup polling history for a president after his first year.
Actually the polls from MA show something very different. There's anger and frustration (you don't need a poll to know that) but it's directed at not getting things done.
The latest poll is from The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University's School of Public Health (.pdf), and what you see is an important picture of non-voters as well as those who turned out.
(Continued here.)
by DemFromCT
Sat Jan 23, 2010
The conventional wisdom (one way you know it's wrong is that everyone repeats it) is that Democrats lost in MA because the voters rejected their policies and also rejected big government. It's so easy to say so that you can find articles like this everywhere (this one is from Scott Brown and Bob McDonnell's pollsters):
Apparently, the Democrats thought people had voted for them because of their agenda -- an agenda they really hadn't bothered to share with the electorate in the first place. And now, the party's bungling has resulted in the highest disapproval rating in Gallup polling history for a president after his first year.
Actually the polls from MA show something very different. There's anger and frustration (you don't need a poll to know that) but it's directed at not getting things done.
The latest poll is from The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University's School of Public Health (.pdf), and what you see is an important picture of non-voters as well as those who turned out.
(Continued here.)
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They're angry that the current administration is actually making things worse and taking no responsibility for anything other than the slivers of good news. THey're also angry that the rhetoric of 'hope and change' does not translate in to reality. They're angry that unions get backroom deals on health care while the rest of us have to pay the tax. They're angry that this admininstration criticized the Bush administration policies and then doubles down on the the same policies. They're angry that the federal government keeps bailing out companies that should be left to go to bankruptcy. They're angry that they were lied to when Obama/Biden/Geithner said that unemployment would pass 10% is we didn't pass the stimulus last year and yet, it was passed and unemployment still went past 10%. They're angry that the Democrats are raising the debt limit to $14 trillion - the size of the entire US economy. They're angry the Congress doesn't even read the bills they pass in to law and, worse, fashion the bills behind closed doors. They're angry because the Democrats version of health care 'reform' is actually a government takeover and they have seen the worst of this in Massachusetts passed by left-wing Republican Mitt Romney in their own state and don't want the rest of the country to have to suffer what Massachusans have suffered under their state plan.
JesusHChristOnAPopsicleStick, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to why people are angry at the current administration - even in a Democrat stronghold like Massachusetts.
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