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To: sandintoes who wrote (47203)	11/19/2010 9:12:16 AM
From: Peter Dierks	2 Recommendations Respond to of 71588

Marco Rubio & America's Crisis of Confidence Leon Wolf, Human Events November 17, 2010 Following the landslide victories that Republicans achieved in the November 2010 elections, a number of implausible explanations have arisen regarding what the American public wants. Liberals are gamely pressing the absurd narrative that Democrats lost because they were not liberal enough. Likewise, many on the right (including Tea Party activists) are claiming that the elections were a vindication of hardcore small-government libertarianism. Neither theory has any empirical support. For instance, exit polling indicates that by a margin of 39 to 52 percent, voters in November opposed extending all of the Bush tax cuts. “Cutting taxes” was listed as the highest priority for the new Congress by a meager 18% of voters, far behind “spending to create new jobs” at 37%. Among voters in 2010, 47% favored either expanding ObamaCare or leaving it as is, nearly the same number (48%) who wanted to repeal ObamaCare. Nearly as many people (17%) indicated that their vote was intended as a message “against the Tea Party” as those who indicated (22%) that their vote was intended as a message “in favor of the Tea Party.” Proposals to cut and/or privatize Social Security and Medicare benefits are still opposed by more than 50% of the population. In light of these results, it would be a mistake to assume that voters sent Republicans to Washington with a mandate to eliminate the Department of Education and to slash Medicare. The one thing that the polls do consistently show is ... humanevents.com