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Poll: Dems Drop 13 Points On Generic Ballot In 2 Months

The CNN/ORC poll released Thursday found that a Republican candidate leads a Democratic candidate on the generic ballot, 49 percent to 44 percent. The new findings from the mid-December poll are a switch from two months ago when Democrats had the advantage over Republicans on the generic ballot. Back then, the same polling outlet found Democrats leading Republicans on the generic ballot, 50 percent to 42 percent.

So a person who does not exist will lose to another person who does not exist in an election 311 days from now. Sigh. Perhaps the wildly fluctuating polls had something to do with this?

– Only 6 people were able to enroll at healthcare.gov on Oct. 1

Or maybe because the right-wing and mainstream (is that redundant?) news sites are pounding the “Obamacare is a failure!!” story and ignoring any good news?

Karl “Math Guy” Rove is predicting a big year for Republicans. And that is good news for John McCain Democrats if we run on the Affordable Care Act and the minimum wage and Heartless Republicans:

– The GOP Decides to Play Scrooge as Millions Lose Benefits

– Inequality isn’t important? That’s just wrong

– Hey Dems: the only way out on health-care is through

– ObamaCare sales surge

– Poll Finds Strong National Support For Extending Unemployment Benefits

– Gallup: 76% Of Americans Support A Minimum Wage Increase

And this won’t hurt the cause one bit: McDonald’s Ditches Worker Advice Website Due To ‘Unwarranted Scrutiny’

Before it was shut down this week, the McResource site had advised McDonald’s workers to avoid holiday debt by selling their Christmas presents for cash, and warned them not to eat fast food. McResource also advised workers to break their food into small pieces as a way of tricking themselves into feeling full, and suggested that workers “sing away stress.”

“Unwarranted scrutiny”, aka, EPIC cluelessness.

Please proceed, rich minimum-wage corporations getting rich because your workers are kept alive via government safety nets. Please proceed.

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  2. HappyinVT

    because the right-wing and mainstream (is that redundant?) news sites are pounding the “Obamacare is a failure!!” story and ignoring any good news?

    Lefty-leaning folks too like Ezra Klein.  Because the thought is we’re always truthful and confront our faults instead of pretending they don’t exist.

  4. JanF

    The GOP’s Growing Divide

    The Republican Party, which should have the wind at its back, enters 2014 in disarray bordering on open warfare.

    … “generic” polls are of limited use in predicting what will happen in November. But the numbers do suggest that the GOP is back in the game. Voters appear willing to listen to what the party has to say.

    If only the GOP had a message.

    (snip)

    On a range of issues, this is the party’s essential dilemma. Ideologues want to continue the practice of massive, uncompromising resistance to anything Obama tries to accomplish. Pragmatists want the GOP to demonstrate that it can be reasonable and trustworthy, on the theory that voters want their government to function well and won’t put a bunch of anti-government extremists in charge of running it.

  5. JanF

    Nearly One And A Half Million Workers Will Get A Raise On New Year’s Day

    Come January 1, over 1.4 million people – 1,441,000 to be exact – will get a raise thanks to increasing minimum wages in 13 states, according to an analysis by the National Employment Law Project (NELP).

    Four states – Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island – passed increases in their minimum wages this year that take effect at the beginning of 2014. The other nine – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington – will see an increase thanks to state laws that require automatic annual raises tied to the cost of living. California also passed a higher wage of $10 an hour that will take effect later in the year.

    At the city level, workers in the small Washington state town of SeaTac will get a $15 wage after a ballot initiative passed in November, and San Francisco and San Jose will both see increases on January 1 thanks to required automatic adjustments indexed to inflation, raising their wages to $10.79 and $10.15, respectively. Those in Washington, D.C. are likely to get one of $11.50 next year as well.

  6. JanF

    Why You Shouldn’t Succumb to Defeatism About the Affordable Care Act

    If the past is any guide, some fixes will probably be necessary — but so what? Our current health care system is the real disaster — the most expensive and least effective among all developed countries, according Bloomberg’s recent ranking. We’d be collectively insane if we didn’t try to overhaul it.

    But we won’t get it perfect immediately. What needs fixing can be fixed. And over time we can learn how to do it better. […]

    Why be defeatist before we begin? Even Social Security — the most popular of all government programs — had problems when it was launched in 1935. A full year later, Alf Landon, the Republican presidential candidate, called it “a fraud on the workingman.” Former President Herbert Hoover said it would imprison the elderly in the equivalent of “a national zoo.” Americans were slow to sign up. Not until the 1970s did Social Security cover most working-age Americans.

    Being on the right side of history will count for something. Our insurance industry (the real death panels) needed to be reined in. One of the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act was the new rule that insurance companies could not make a fat cow on claim denial. When they had to pay out at least 80 cents on every premium dollar, the result was rebate checks to millions of policy holders. THAT provision is in place … along with provisions to allow kids to stay on parent’s policies until age 26, no lifetime caps, no denial for pre-existing conditions, community based (not gender or health based) ratings and accountability. That is the baby that the Republicans want to throw out with the bathwater and no amount of blather from Republicans (and Ezra Klein) about “fixing Obamacare” will cover up that their solution is to go BACK TO denying older people and sick people.

    We can run on this because it is a winning issue, but more importantly, because it is a moral issue and we are right to want to provide affordable health care to everyone.

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