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To: koan who wrote (82139)	7/10/2010 12:22:38 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

This poll is reality, koan. They don't think Obama is too far to the right.......they think he is a frigging socialist. We don't live in koan's highly educated, celebral world but rather in the frigging disunited states of amerika where the people are not very informed and many are just not very bright. A country where 26% of the people can not tell you what country we fought during the Revolutionary War. A country where otherwise intelligent people believe we were a democracy in 1778. When you point out that women couldn't vote and blacks were slaves in 1778, they become incensed....at the messenger, not the reality. Every day my sister sends me winger emails that are bald face lies and need to be debunked. These lies are being forwarded every single frigging day to as many Americans as possible. Unlike with my sister, they don't get debunked because there isn't someone like me to debunk them. You are living in a bubble that does not deal in reality. Obama is fighting for his political life because most people think he's too liberal, not too conservative. So then, who is out of step, koan? This is what I said to Bentway recently and now I repeat it to you: "Choose.....Bush heavy or Obama. That's the choice. If you think Obama is about to take away your freedoms or is not liberal enough, then go for Bush heavy. Then you won't ever have to think about it again.....EVER." The left is fighting for its political life and you and bentway want to fiddle while Rome......I mean, DC burns. Discouraging to say the least. 55% of Likely Voters Think Obama's a Socialist, and Other Brutal Poll Numbers Democrats are going to lose pretty badly in November. Because it's four months away, and the unemployment rate is 10 percent. It's that simple. And as a new poll shows, they're losing the message battle in some horrible ways. A new poll issued by James Carville's political action firm, Democracy Corps, shows that 31 percent of likely voters think the country's headed on the right track, 61 percent wrong track. (Eight percent think it's in Candyland.) Whichever party you think is the cause for this — if you think one political party is, in fact, the cause for this — it will hurt the party in power regardless. More! Obama approval/disapproval: 45/51 Obama shares/doesn't share your values: 46/51 Obama is/isn't on your side: 45/52 Obama is/isn't too liberal: 57/38 Obama is/isn't a big spender: 61/34 Obama is/isn't a socialist: 55/39 Obama has/doesn't have realistic solutions to the country's problems: 43/55 Mean Republican/Democratic Party ratings: 46.0/43.3 Mean Congressional Republican/Democrat ratings: 43/4/40.7 Generic Republican/Democratic Congressional support in November: 48/42 One thing about that socialism number, even though Obama is not a socialist: 29% of people think of socialism positively, and only 52% of people think of "capitalism" positively. It is not 0% versus 100%. We are a nation of many views! Back to the Democratic horror show: "The best way to improve our economy and create jobs is to invest more to put people to work, develop new industries, and help businesses grow in expanding, new areas." OR "The best way to improve our economy and create jobs is to cut government spending and cut taxes so businesses can prosper and the private sector can start creating jobs." FIRST STATEMENT: 43 SECOND STATEMENT: 50 Okay, since the first statement is supposedly the Democratic Message, why not put something in there about passing a medium- to long-term deficit reduction plan to soothe any creditors' medium- and long-term nerves while working to bring the economy back in the short term? Slashing government spending immediately would produce a loss of five or ten percent in GDP, the end. But anyway, this is beside the point. There is an unemployment rate of 10% and the Democrats are in power! Every sad poll and hilarious outburst and fantasy allegation and whatnot stems from this. gawker.com