"Brown rode anti-Washington wave; Angry voters turned to GOP, poll indicates" by Dan Balz and Jon Cohen, Washington Post | January 23, 2010
Unbelievable!
It takes the Washington Post and outsiders to interview the voters the Glob will not?
Related: Globe Finally Discovers Voter Discontent
Boston Globe Still in its Liberal Bubble
I don't think I want to read the Boston Globe much longer, readers. It is agenda-pushing and misrepresenting even the most local issues.
Tears on a Saturday. Great.
WASHINGTON - Dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, antipathy toward federal government activism, and opposition to the Democrats’ health care proposals drove the victory of Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts, according to a post-election survey of Massachusetts voters.
The poll by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University’s School of Public Health underscores how significantly voter anger has turned against Democrats in Washington and how dramatically the political landscape has shifted during President Obama’s first year in office.
Because they DIDN'T DO WHAT WE WANTED THEN TO DO!!!
(Blog editor's heart drops to his toes)
Sixty-three percent of Massachusetts special election voters said the country is seriously off track....
Nearly two-thirds of Brown’s voters said their vote was intended at least in part to express opposition to the Democratic agenda in Washington....
When Obama was elected, 63 percent of Massachusetts voters said government should do more to solve problems, according to exit polling. In the new poll, that number slipped to 50 percent, with about as many, 47 percent, saying that government is doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals.
Yes, MAYBE Massachusetts is WAKING UP!
Like Obama, Coakley won more than 70 percent of those progovernment voters....
All around me.
Just 43 percent of Massachusetts voters said they support the health care proposals advanced by Obama and congressional Democrats; 48 percent opposed them....
We are not even for our own model on you, and you know why, readers!
Sizable majorities of Brown voters saw the Democrats’ plan, if passed, as making things worse for their families, the country, and the state.
Yeah, it is NOT anything personal or partisan at all!!!!
Few Coakley voters saw these harms, and most backing her saw clear benefits for the country if health care reform became law....
I can't respond to the Pavlovian blindness anymore.
Among Brown voters who said the health care reform effort in Washington played an important role in their vote, the most frequently cited reasons were concerns about the process, including closed-door dealing and a lack of bipartisanship.
That ALWAYS BOTHERS ME in our "transparent democracy" NO MATTER WHICH SIDE!
Three in 10 highlighted these political machinations as the motivating factor; 22 percent expressed general opposition to reform or the current bill. Coakley voters, by contrast, cited the need to cover the uninsured and fix the health care system as the main reasons the issue drove their vote. Massachusetts enacted a universal health care plan several years ago, and the survey shows that it remains highly popular. Overall, 68 percent of the voters in Tuesday’s election said they support the Massachusetts plan, including slightly more than half of Brown voters.
You would think it would be more, wouldn't you?
Obama also remains highly popular in Massachusetts. More than 6 in 10 of those who voted approved of his job performance, with 92 percent of Coakley voters expressing satisfaction, along with 33 percent of Brown’s. More than half of Brown’s backers said Obama was not a factor in their vote. But the Obama administration’s policies drew some fire, with nearly half of all special election voters either dissatisfied or angry about those initiatives....
But they PLAN to PLOW AHEAD ANYWAY to serve the narrow special interests that govern them.
Republican policies proved even less popular, with 58 percent of Massachusetts voters saying they were dissatisfied or angry about what the Republicans in Congress are offering....
Translation: It is STILL a BLUE STATE, folks!
They WANT YOU to GET the MESSAGE, Democrats!
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For a view inside this voter's mind, go here: Selecting a Senator: Brown Beats Coakley
The few, the proud, the one-percenters of Massachusetts.
No wonder there is no one to talk to around here.
