by Chriss Street
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The Congressional Democrats achieved an election mandate in 2008, but Barack Obama won a much more mundane Presidential victory. After ramming through policies equally unpopular with conservatives and progressives, Barack Obama actions have caused an epic surrender of the Democratic Party’s mandate to the Republicans. |
The 2008 election was a mandate
for the Congressional Democrats. They successfully ran on a platform of
domestic change and reform at the height of the economic crisis. They accumulated a 10 percentage
point advantage in party registration and 12 percentage point advantage in
voters “leaning” Democrat versus Republicans. The Democrats dominated the
Congressional elections by gaining 13 million more votes than
the Republicans. Democrats captured another 21 seats to amass a 79 seat
majority in the House. They also gained 7 seats in
the Senate for a 16 seat majority.
But Democrat Barack Obama was
elected President with only 52% of the votes cast. More than half of the
56 Presidents elected have received higher percentages of the popular
vote. Richard Nixon in 1972, Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Franklin
Roosevelt in 1936 and Warren Harding in 1920 won true mandates by winning over
60% of the vote.
Over the next four years,
Obama’s arrogantly acted like he won a historic mandate squandered the
Democrat’s mandate. According the Wall
Street Journal:
“Obama misread his Republican opponents from day one. If he had
been large-spirited and conciliatory he would have effectively undercut them,
and kept them from uniting. Instead he was toughly partisan, he shut them
out, and positions hardened. In time Republicans came to think he doesn’t
really listen, doesn’t really hear. So did some Democrats.”
In fact, lots of Democrats
have not only abandoned Obama, they have abandoned the Democratic Party!
Since 2008, the Republicans Party has captured an 11% change in registration
from the Democrats and 15% party affiliation change.
Party Affiliation
|
Democrat
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Republican
|
Affiliation Change
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2008 Registration
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39%
|
29%
|
+10%
Democrat
|
2008 Lean
|
54%
|
42%
|
+12%
Democrat
|
2012 Registration
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35%
|
36%
|
+11%
Republican
|
2012 Lean
|
49%
|
46%
|
+15%
Republican
|
Most Americans understand that the rejection of President
Obama’s authoritarian nationalization of healthcare and egregious regulatory
Executive Orders motivated independents to launch the powerful Tea Party Movement.
But they are generally not aware that the President has created a rebellion
among progressive who plan to boycott his re-election. Some of these
powerful progressive rejectionists include:
Camille Paglia is
disappointed that Obama ran as a moderate, but has been “one of the most racially divisive and polarizing figures ever. I
think it’s going to take years to undo the damage to relationships between the
races.”
Matt Stoller in
Salon.com last week published: “The Progressive
Case Against Obama.” Stoller states: “The bailouts and the associated Federal Reserve actions were not
primarily shifts of funds to bankers; they were a guarantee that property
rights for a certain class of creditors were immune from challenge or market
forces.”
Conor Friedersdorf
wrote in The Atlantic: “Why I Refuse To Vote For Barack Obama.” He
states: “I’d have thought more
people on the left would regard a sustained assault on civil liberties and the
ongoing, needless killing of innocent kids as deal-breakers.”
Barack Obama ran for President
four years ago as a transformation candidate. Since that time, he has
energized conservatives and undermined many progressives. His
transformational legacy will be the politician who handed the Democrat’s epic
mandate to the Republicans.
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