Go farther left, the polls show it!!!

[thundley4]

grahamhgreen   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jan-20-10 06:18 PM
Original message
Poll Shouts The Message Massachusetts Voters Were Sending
   

Source: Our Future Blog

The numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll released Wednesday by MoveOn.org and Democracy for America speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. ...

* Generally speaking do you think Barack Obama and Democrats in Washington, DC are delivering enough on the change Obama promised to bring to America during the campaign?
Yes 31%
No 57%
Not sure 12%

* Do you think Democrats in Washington, D.C. are fighting hard enough to challenge the Republican policies of the Bush years, aren’t fighting hard enough to change those policies, or are fighting about right?
Not Enough 37%
About Right 21%
Too Hard 15%
Not Sure 27%

* If the Democratic Congress passed a bill that laid down stronger rules of the road for Wall Street and cut bonuses for the executives of companies that received government bailouts, would that make you more likely or less likely to vote Democratic in the 2010 general election?
More likely 53%
Less likely 14%
No effect 33%

* What would do more to improve our nation’s economic conditions: Decreasing government spending OR tightening government regulation of Wall Street and corporate executives?
Cut spending 43%
Tighten regulation 25%

* Democrats in Washington are more on my side than on the side of the lobbyists and special interests, OR Democrats in Washington are more on the side of the lobbyists and special interests than on the side of people like me.
The lobbyists 47%
People like me 23%
Not sure 30%

* Do you think it goes too far or doesn’t go far enough? (Asked of people who opposed the Senate health care reform bill 
Too far 23%
Not far enough 36%

* Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?
Favor 82%
Oppose 14%
Not Sure 4%
...

The bottom line: It ain't that complicated. A progressive populist message on kitchen-table domestic issues is a winning message, even in a time when voters are wary of government and concerned about deficits.

Read more: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010010320/poll-sho...


I hope you middle of the roaders will carefully consider these metrics!

  http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7525393

At least the DUmmie provides a link to the polls, even if the numbers were pulled out of someon's ass.

FiveGoodMen   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jan-20-10 06:23 PM
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2. Obama won't listen, but I hope the rest of us do.
   
We need much better candidates.

Go Kucinich and Dean !!!!

Douglas Carpenter   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jan-20-10 06:25 PM
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4. THANK YOU!!   
   
* Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?

Favor 82%

Oppose 14%

Not Sure 4%

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010010320/poll-sho...

RuhRoh, the DUmmies have found a source that shows poll like numbers that would come from the DUmp.

nini (1000+ posts)             Wed Jan-20-10 06:27 PM
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6. then why vote for the person less likely to do those things?
   


They pretty much put a nail in the coffin of what they wanted.

Don't bring common sense into this.

FBaggins (1000+ posts)           Wed Jan-20-10 06:32 PM
Response to Reply #6
10. Which should be pretty clear evidence that this isn't an exit poll.
   
They obviously didn't do a good enough job of identifying people who had actually voted... and/or had a little too much "push" in their poll.

Either that or the voters of MA are idiots. What do we think the chances of that are?

Don't rain on their parade.

mike_c   (1000+ posts)             Wed Jan-20-10 06:37 PM
Response to Reply #6
12. because when people know they aren't being well served by the present leadership...
   
...THAT'S what their vote means, as often as not. It's a vote AGAINST the status quo.

You keep telling yourself, and keep pushing the Dimrats farther left.

FBaggins (1000+ posts)           Wed Jan-20-10 06:30 PM
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7. This being the same polling firm that said the election was a dead heat or Coakley up by eight?
   
The only polling firm to show a Coakley lead after the 11th?

And now a push poll that isn't really in any way an "exit" poll?

No thanks.

Most of the DUmmies are eating up these poll results. 

[Texacon]

Yes, yes DUmmies.  Tell ALL your friends we need to push our representatives to move farther left.  PLEASE do this, pretty please?

KC

[Carl]

* Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?
Favor 82%
Oppose 14%
Not Sure 4%
...

Then explain the details,restrictions and costs and see what those numbers do.

[Ralph Wiggum]

ourfuture.org???

Sounds like a very fair & balanced site.

[BadCat]

ourfuture.org???

Sounds like a very fair & balanced site.

Uh...yeah....from their "About Us" page....

We live in a remarkable political moment: precarious, yet potentially transforming. At the Campaign for America’s Future, our daily work is to bring about the progressive transformation.

After three decades of conservative dominance in American politics, we Americans are threatened with economic disintegration, environmental devastation and international
isolation.

The list of failure is simply exhausting: a disastrous Iraq occupation, a destabilized Middle East and Asia, the persistent threat of terrorism, a menacing climate crisis, an insecure and dwindling energy supply, unprecedented trade deficits, unchecked global corporate power, our broken health care system, a weakened pension system and an increasingly inaccessible higher education system.

But out of the ashes of this era of conservative failure comes an historic opportunity for progressives to salvage the American Ideal and shape this young century.

That’s where we come in.

[USA4ME]

JUMP!!!  JUMP!!!!  JUMP!!!!!

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[thundley4]

From Politico, a slightly more balanced site than "OurFuture".

Scott Brown's opposition to congressional health care legislation was the most important issue that fueled his U.S. Senate victory in Massachusetts, according to exit poll data collected following the Tuesday special election.

Fifty-two percent of Bay State voters who were surveyed as the polls closed said they opposed the federal health care reform measure and 42 percent said they cast their ballot to help stop President Obama from passing his chief domestic initiative.

"I'm not surprised it was the top issue, but I was surprised by how overwhelming an issue it was. It became a focal point for the frustration that has been brewing with voters, and it's a very personal issue that affects everyone," said Tony Fabrizio of Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, a Republican firm that conducted the exit poll of 800 voters.

"A plurality of voters said their vote was to stop the president's health care plan — more than those saying it was a vote against his policies in general," Fabrizio wrote in a memo that accompanied his exit polling.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31708.html#ixzz0dGGYh6T9

[jukin]

From the DUmbasses mouths to donk leadership ears.

PLEASE, please go farther to the left!!