[lbo-talk] AFL-CIO's Massachusetts post-mortem

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jan 23 09:05:40 PST 2010


On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:33 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:


> Probably the best analysis and the most useful poll numbers I've yet
> seen:
>
> http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/upload/mass_elections.pdf
>

From which we learn:

* Brown voters are mad that Obama hasn't delivered "change" - a largely contentless thing, since the change he would deliver is very different from the fantasies that many Obama voters had about the change he would deliver.

* They liked Brown better than Coakley. They liked Bush better than Gore too.

* They want Brown to be "bipartisan," though he's on the right wing of a party that isn't the least bit interested in cooperation.

In other words, this election was as meaningless as 2008's.

Doug



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