"The conservative political world crystallized by Bush has crashed"

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Poll: Democrats Have a Clear Mandate; New Report Shows Progressive Populism Driving Force in Midterm Elections

11/14/2006 2:59:00 PM

Contact: Toby Chaudhuri or Noreen Nielsen, 202-955-5665, both of Campaign for America's Future

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Last Tuesday's elections provided a striking mandate for change, according to an election night survey released last week by the Campaign for America's Future. The poll, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, found that the top two issues among Americans who voted for Democrats this election were getting out of the mess in Iraq and getting politicians to work for the public good instead of special interests.

Particularly in contested Republican districts, voters saw big differences between the parties on the issues, especially on the war in Iraq and on taxes. They clearly voted for a change in course in Iraq and for legislators willing to take on corporate lobbies that are driving up the costs of gas and health care. They rejected the president's argument to stay the course either in Iraq or on the economy.

"This election marks the end of one-party misrule in Washington," said Campaign for America's Future Co-Director Robert Borosage. "Voters are looking for a change in course in Iraq. And they're looking for legislators who will put government on their side, challenge entrenched corporate lobbies and policies and change an economy that doesn't work for them. This marks the end of a conservative era that has been mugged by a reality that it got wrong. Now the struggle begins for what comes next."

The survey found that voters rejected the signature initiatives of this conservative administration such as the Iraq war, privatization of Social Security and trickle-down economics. Americans are increasingly turning against basic conservative ideological doctrine.

"The conservative political world crystallized by Bush has crashed," said the poll's author, Stan Greenberg. "The image of the Republican party is at the lowest point in the history of polling."


more: http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=76318



Editor's Note: An electronic copy of the Campaign for America's Future's post-election poll and ad report are available at http://www.ourfuture.org


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1. No, they are re-emerging--kinder and gentler. THEY are here to stay

in one form or another.

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2. The Democrats have been taken over by them, don'tcha know? nt

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3. poke