by DemFromCT
Sat Jan 23, 2010
The conventional wisdom (one way you know it's wrong is that everyone repeats it) is that Democrats lost in MA because the voters rejected their policies and also rejected big government. It's so easy to say so that you can find articles like this everywhere (this one is from Scott Brown and Bob McDonnell's pollsters):
Apparently, the Democrats thought people had voted for them because of their agenda -- an agenda they really hadn't bothered to share with the electorate in the first place. And now, the party's bungling has resulted in the highest disapproval rating in Gallup polling history for a president after his first year.
Actually the polls from MA show something very different. There's anger and frustration (you don't need a poll to know that) but it's directed at not getting things done.
The latest poll is from The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University's School of Public Health (.pdf), and what you see is an important picture of non-voters as well as those who turned out.
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