On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:37 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it would be more correct to say that: A majority of VOTING Americans > agreed with the general idea that over the next few years, we needed to > reign in spending, and thus voted in people who promised to do such.
I don't even know if you can make that argument very well. A Presidential election is the only time that we even get close in this country to having people vote on a single thing. You can do a bunch of polling and base some opinions on that, but since we don't have national referendum votes in the US, we don't have much to go on other than the pundits saying, "this is what votes meant", which is of course more about what the pundits want things to be about. Most polls put concerns about deficits way below concerns about jobs, so I'd argue that Democrats in the House were getting punished for not making enough traction on the unemployment rate rather than any "message" about spending and deficits. But that's just an opinion, no way to know for certain because each of the races was individual. In the House race in the district next to mine, I don't care for the Republican candidate they ran but the Democrat has shown to have some mental stability issues. The Democrat still won in this case but next time around he very well may lose because of the revelations that have come out not because of any sort of message about anything national. > I doubt you'll find very many Americans who support shutting down our > government at this juncture just to try and make a point. As usual, a party > gets voted in, think they have a mandate, and fuck it up. That I'd certainly agree with. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335955 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
