Jan 10
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We Americans put our trust in the Democratic Party in the 2008 election. What has happened between then and now that has caused so many new supporters to sit out elections and others to vote with another Party?
An exit poll taken by Research 2000 at the Massachusetts election shows that the election was not a call to go back to conservatism but was a call for Democrats to be bolder in pursuing the populist reforms the public thought it was going to get after the 2008 elections. Only 31% of the people who voted for Obama in 2008 and voted for Scott Brown or didn’t vote at all felt Obama is delivering enough change as he promised. Only 21% felt that Democrats in Washington are fighting hard enough to change the Republican policies of the Bush years.
These same people (47 %) think that Democrats in Washington are more on the side of the Lobbyists than the people AND 82% of the people favor a government administered health insurance plan something like Medicare.
Self-identified Independents and Democrats responded nearly identically.
What this means is we, the people want more from the Obama administration NOT less. Don’t retreat on the election promises – give us healthcare with a public option and put restrictions back on Wall Street and now find a way to preserve our elections from the recent Supreme Court decision that gives Corporations free speech rights.
Join us February 3 at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Hear our speaker, Rodney Glassman, exploring a candidacy for US Senator, the seat currently held by John McCain and sought by J.D. Hayworth and then let’s talk about what we can and should do to get us out of the mess our country and state is in.
