A new survey of swing voters finds that the Republican Party's best chance of success in the upcoming election is to transform itself into an ultra liberal party. But I understated that. Read below and I think you will agree that what these swing voters want is a very progressive agenda. In other words, it's time for the Daddy Party to give it up.
And, yes, the survey included voters in Tennessee.
Now all we have to do is put a stop to the Daddy Party's control over the voting machines.
The survey of swing voters was conducted in eight states with highly competitive senate races: Pennsylvania, Montana, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Ohio, Missouri, and Minnesota and Tennessee.
The survey finds that among swing voters our pathetic Presidential Poser has a job approval of 29 percent. Sixty-six percent of the swing voters disapprove of the Bush train wreck. A whopping 73 percent of the very likely voters say that the Bush train wreck is on the wrong track.
More than 80 percent expressed serious concern with the federal budget deficit, and 74 percent accused the Republican-controlled federal government of putting the needs of the wealthy and of corporations ahead of average working families and the underprivileged.
When it came to the issue of increasing government investments in education, health care, and technologies that would aid our energy independence, swing voters overwhelmingly said they would support congressional candidates who promised to do so. According to the poll, more than three-quarters of swing voters wanted more investment in public education programs such as school improvements, Head Start, and college aid.
More than 70 percent said they would support candidates who would reverse huge Republican tax cuts for the rich and the trend of paying for those tax giveaways by gutting health care programs and spending on public education.
More than 60 percent of swing voters view current spending on the war in Iraq as a wrong priority and would rather see that money spent on social programs like public education, health care, and advances in technology. Large majorities also said they would support candidates who would roll back tax cuts for large corporations and the very rich in order to help pay for these investments.
About 7 in 10 swing voters view the Republican-controlled federal government as too intrusive in their personal lives.
Only four percent of the respondents in the USAction poll identified strongly with either major political party, about 13 percent identified "weakly" with either of the two major parties, and 80 percent described themselves as independent voters. More than 9 in 10 voted in the 2002 mid-term congressional elections, and 99 percent voted in the 2004 presidential election.
Hat tip to Political Wire
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