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In panic over jobs, Dems detour from health care
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
December 3, 2009
There’s
a reason Barack Obama squeezed a hastily-arranged "Jobs Summit" into a
White House schedule dominated by national health care and
Afghanistan. You can find it on every page of "The Economy and
Politics of 2010," a new survey of voter attitudes circulating among
Democrats that, despite its dry title, betrays a sense of dread and
horror among party strategists hoping to avoid defeat in next year's
mid-term elections.
The report is the work of Democracy Corps,
the influential polling organization run by Democraic strategists James
Carville and Stanley Greenberg. The two men found voters are nearly
beside themselves about unemployment, angry about the deficit,
pessimistic about the future, and in a mood to punish Democrats if
things don't get better soon. "This is about the economy, and it's not
pretty," they write.
Most ominous for Democrats is the rise in
the number of people who believe the country is on the wrong track.
That number grew steadily through the later Bush years, reaching a high
of 85 percent just before last November's elections. But with Obama's
win, discontent began to subside. By inauguration day, the number was
66 percent. By March, it was 56 percent, and by May it was 46
percent. It was a remarkable turnaround, attributable mostly to the
new president.
But since then the turnaround itself has turned
around. By July, the wrong track number had inched up to 50 percent.
It was 55 percent in September. Now, it's 58 percent.
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