Okay, I'm not going to question for a minute that economic conditions are weighing on The One's support right now. But his premise here is that's the ONLY reason Obama's sagging in the polls right now, and the public's hunger for "stimulus," socialized medicine, and other full-bore statism is nevertheless just as vigorous as they judged it a year ago.
Well the problem is there, Jonny, you don't have to GUESS voter attitudes towards those issues specifically. There's these whatchamacallits called "polls," where we simply ASK THEM what they think of them. And every one of them show 2 to 1 opposition to health care, and that the stimulus is a colossal flop. You know, the polls that were all you swore by in assuring us that all those years of GOP dominance you claimed were superficial, because polls said voters agreed with YOUR positions then?
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>> Would McCain have more popular support right now than Obama does, because the public really wants an agenda of smaller government and lower taxes? That’s not a very plausible scenario.
This presumes that policy has no effect on the nation’s outlook. If conservative economic policies had been enacted (which is no sure thing if McCain were elected), unemployment would be lower, and McCain would thus likely be enjoying greater popularity than Obama is.
The public really wants an agenda that works.
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Using the writers analogy, then the only reason that Obama got elected in the first place is because of the impending financial disaster of the banks and the economy turning sour. Not because of any ideas he was pitching.
Quick question for Chait guy, what on earth were demonazis looking at to think they had a mandate to socialize America? Man, these libtards and their ivy league educations are so hard to follow. I don’t believe I have ever seen a poll showing majority support for socialized medicine. Maybe in MA and few other nutball states, but the vast majority of Americans have always preferred free access to medical care for their bodies and disliked the intercession of Govt between them and their bodies. You really had to be a moron to ever buy the proposition that people want to be treated like sheep. It goes without saying that the vast majority of dems like to be considered as chattal, but the freemen of America prefer to be a cowboy rather than a cow. You would think even someone who went to Harvard or Yale could understand this. Guess not.
Most of the stimulus was used to prop up State budgets and pad their political allies. Small business is being squeezed and real unemployment is more than 15% and the currency is weakened significantly.. He wants to say that would have happened regardless, but that just doesent fly.