Interesting Poll about Mass Election

[Geek_Girl]

A majority of Obama voters who switched to Brown said that "Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street." A full 95 percent said the economy was important or very important when it came to deciding their vote.

In a somewhat paradoxical finding, a plurality of voters who switched to the Republican -- 37 percent -- said that Democrats were not being "hard enough" in challenging Republican policies.

It would be hard to find a clearer indication, it seems, that Tuesday's vote was cast in protest.

The poll also upends the conventional understanding of health care's role in the election. A plurality of people who switched -- 48 -- or didn't vote -- 43 -- said that they opposed the Senate health care bill. But the poll dug deeper and asked people why they opposed it. Among those Brown voters, 23 percent thought it went "too far" -- but 36 percent thought it didn't go far enough and 41 percent said they weren't sure why they opposed it.

Among voters who stayed home and opposed health care, a full 53 percent said they opposed the Senate bill because it didn't go far enough; 39 percent weren't sure and only eight percent thought it went too far.

The firm Research 2000 conducted the post-election survey Tuesday night on behalf of three progressive organizations -- the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America and MoveOn.org.

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[FreakinDJ]

1. Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street."

It doesn't get any more obvious then that folks

[Captain Hilts]

8. So they voted for the Republican?!?!

[FreakinDJ]

9. How about the felt they were being FUCKED

AS in they will kick out every FUCKING DLC Democrat they can

WAKE UP SUCKERS - The DLC SCREWED the Party

[Captain Hilts]

12. And the Republicans aren't going to do so?

[FreakinDJ]

14. RATpubliCONs have a line of CRAP that is working right now

with some low information voters - SO WHAT - They won't wake up until the RATpubliCONs crash the economy again

In the mean time we will probably lose what little is left of America

[Grand Taurean]

2. Coakley is anti-wall street Obama/Brown are pro-wall street.

[clear eye]

19. Clearly the electorate didn't trust Coakley to stand up to the policies

of Obama that they don't like. Though she claimed to be pro public option, they believed that she would immediately cave and vote for the Romney-care-like bill that the President wants. And more importantly would support the President's catering to the big financial institutions to the voters' economic detriment. Those two WH policies are terribly unpopular according to polls. The Republicans have been (dishonestly) running against both.

Of course the meat of these policies have for the most part been created in consultation w/ the Republicans. That's why going back to them for more policy advice, as Obama has said he plans to, is exactly the wrong thing to do. They will continue to set him up to take the heat for doing what the corporate moneybags want by saying in private that they demand these things, but not owning them in public.

[frazzled]

3. A MoveOn commissioned poll

What's really curious about it (besides the fact that I can't find their methodology beyond finding 1,000 people who voted for Obama), is that if the vast majority said they'd vote for Democrats if they "enacted tighter restrictions on Wall Street"--they turned around and voted for a man who has openly said he will not put tighter restrictions on Wall Street, even as the Democrats are trying to pass just such legislation.

So I call bullshit on this poll. All it proves is that voters are delusional, and vote against their own stated interests

[GCP]

5. +1

Exactly

[Geek_Girl]

15. Or Brown was a really good sales man and convinced them he was a populist

nt

[HughMoran]

18. Clearly voters are delusional

You can read opposite pole responses in almost any thread here - nobody has any idea why things are - they're just flinging every thought they have at the wall - even if there is no cohesiveness to any of the rantings.

[clear eye]

4. Just as Arianna Huffington (and I ) have been saying.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7500310&mesg_id=7501506 Do I get a 2nd "I told you so"?

I can't imagine hearing today's news that over 1/4 of the profits the formerly bailed out banks made this year is going to executive bonuses instead of being loaned out to create jobs will help the attitude of the swing voters.

[gateley]

6. It's always the economy -- that's what affects us each personally each and every day. nt

[Captain Hilts]

7. And voting for Brown sticks it to Wall St. how?????? Bass ackward 'logic'. nt

[LiberalFighter]

10. Just like the 23 year teacher named Griffin

stating he was voting for Brown to provide checks and balances.

He obviously isn't qualified to teach based on that statement. Because either he is lying or is blind to reality.

[dgibby]

13. He ran as a populist,

the "everyman in a pickup". He made the rounds, stood out in the cold, shook hands with the people. He made himself the guy you'd want to have a beer with. He LISTENED, or at least pretended to, so people gravitated to him.

Obama said today that the same anger that swept him into office is the same anger that got Brown elected.

People who are angry, frustrated, and scared are not always rational, and if they perceive that the person they voted for is no longer listening, then they will sometimes do whatever it takes to get the attention of their elected reps. It's the equivalent of screaming "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore!".

[Geek_Girl]

17. That's what I think

He sold himself as a populist and anti-Wall street anti-establishment and the voters bought it hook line and sinker.

[Faryn Balyncd]

11. Interesting . . .K and R

[HughMoran]

16. "41 percent said they weren't sure why they opposed it"

Morans.