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2010 Elections: Why Have the Democrats Lost Popular Support?

Wed, 10/27/2010 - 10:24 — Dave Culver
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  • What the Democrats Could Have Done
  • Scaring Us To The Polls

Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun.org

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Perhaps the November elections will not be as harsh on the Democrats as the polls predict, but the Dems' behavior in power has decreased their popularity dramatically.

We know, of course, that the Democrats did not have a solid majority in Congress, given Rahm Emanuel's 2006 decision to back the most conservative candidates in the Democratic primaries in order to win in swing districts and take Democratic control of the House of Representatives (a decision he made while serving as chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee). Democrats in the Senate followed a similar path. As a result, they won formal control and hence could be blamed for what ensued, but they did not have the votes to fulfill their promise to the electorate to cut off funding for the war in Iraq.

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Scaring Us To The Polls, Lydia Howell, Evergreene Digest

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