Reply #11: oh really?

[IndyPragmatist]

I don't know about your facebook friends, but I would not call those who supported the Republicans yesterday "stupid".

This election was lost by the Democrats, plan and simple. There were too many wild promises made by the Democrats to have a chance in this election. We were told unemployment would never get this high if we passed the stimulus, whoops. We were told that we would be out of Iraq and Afghanistan, whoops. We were told (by Pelosi) that we would have no new deficit spending, whoops.

The Democrat leadership didn't understand the priorities of the American public. During the 2008 election, healthcare was a huge issue because the economy, while not strong, hadn't collapsed yet. Most educated Americans understand that the healthcare reform passed will be an inhibitor to economic growth. Those in support of the reform did so because they felt healthcare was too important to ignore. Well, since January of 2008, things have changed. The stock market collapsed, unemployment has skyrocketed, and the priorities of the general public have changed. The economy became the #1 issue for most Americans, and they felt that the Democrats did not do a good job handling it.

Some felt that putting healthcare before the economy was a terrible move. They still may support healthcare reform, but would like to see the economy growing at a steady rate before this was addressed.

Another issue is the debt. Obama and Pelosi said time and time again that they were concerned about the national debt, but it didn't seem like they did. The public saw continuous spending in the red. Then they also hear that the President wants to push cap and trade; so again, the public feels like the Democratic leadership is focusing on the wrong issues.

While many people on both sides are ignorant, I wouldn't call them this just for voting for Republicans this time. Obama was given a pretty terrible situation, but he didn't make the right moves. In an era of unlimited information and opinion, this was bound to happen.