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In reply to the discussion: Harry Belafonte Says Obama Lacks "Moral Compass" [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)but just as I don't think yours is, mine is not bullshit, either.
The 2011 elections in NC are a result of buyer's remorse spreading throughout the country after the huge victories TeaBaggers were able to book during the 2010 mid-terms, and the overreach by the Republican Party that campaigned on jobs, but once in power, were eliminating them and pushing socially conservative bills through their legislatures, instead.
President Obama did explain the PPACA as best as he could, but the Democratic Party themselves didn't go out and do much explaining, did they? In fact, Corporate Media exploited the TeaBaggers rage and Democratic acquiescence, projecting the right-wing fringe group as some force to be reckoned with when all they are, are Republicans; the same who vote Republican all the time.
Corporate Media, backed by millions of corporate dollars, happily propagandized exactly what the Koch bros and Freedom Works paid them to, and congressional Dems were almost non-existent on all the major networks where most people get most of their news. Even Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow asked where were the Democrats to help President Obama.
And, I'm sorry to have to inform you, the Liberal Base is a powerful and well-meaning group, but they're not big enough to put the Democratic Party over the top and win elections. Democrats still need to court moderate, even somewhat conservative Independents - the largest voting block between the two parties - to win. That's just political reality.