The Plumline's Greg Sargent: Tax Cut Fight is Winner for Dems in Battleground states

[flpoljunkie]

Tax cut fight is winner for Dems -- in battleground states.

Multiple polls have shown that the public is squarely on Dems' side in the fight over the Bush tax cuts for the rich -- but those polls have all been national, allowing "moderate" Dems to continue complaining that the fight is a loser in difficult districts.

Now, however, the SEIU has commissioned a new poll in seven battleground states finding a strong majority, 62 percent, favor extending just the middle class tax cuts. This bolsters the case that Dems should hold a vote on whether to extend them, to draw a sharp contrast between the parties.

The poll -- by the Dem firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner -- was taken in California, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. It's hard to know whether this tells us anything about how this issue plays in marginal districts. The poll is set for release today -- more when we see it.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/09/the_morning_plum_94.html

[Kdillard]

1. Of course it is a winner for the Dems but the only thing this will

tell us is which Dems are for the people and which have been bought.

[Cosmocat]

2. Good policy AND good politics ...

how could the Ds possibly F that up?

[msongs]

3. stay tuned for the exciting conclusion and see how nt

[geek tragedy]

4. This is how:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/09/lose_with_a_bang.php?ref=fpblg

"Could it really be true that the House is going to adjourn this week and doing nothing on taxes at all? That, of course, would deprive all congressional Democrats of a galvanizing issue and also allow the Republicans to argue that all Democrats had "raised taxes" on everyone. I have a hard time believing this is more than an unfounded rumor. But it would be a good way to knock 10 or 20 more seats out of next years House Democratic caucus."

[flpoljunkie]

5. If this is true, they will lose the House and deservedly so.