Poll Shouts The Message Massachusetts Voters Were Sending

Poor polling questions and lazy analysis can mislead.  Many people are unhappy because there isn't enough change, not because it went too far.  In Massachusetts, for example, more than half who had voted for Obama and voted for Brown say Democrats in Congress haven't done enough:

Poll Shouts The Message Massachusetts Voters Were Sending | OurFuture.org.

The numbers in the Research 2000 exit poll ... speak for themselves: The Massachusetts election was not a call to go back to conservatism. It was, as Robert Borosage on our site said earlier today and as such commentators as Katrina vanden Heuvel are saying, a call for Democrats to be bolder, more audacious and unapologetic in pursuing the populist reforms the public thought it was going to get after the 2008 elections.

The poll focused on Massachusetts residents who voted for President Obama in 2008 but who either voted for Senate republican candidate Scott Brown or did not vote at all. These responses from Brown voters should stand out:

Generally speaking do you think Barack Obama and Democrats in Washington, DC are delivering enough on the change Obama promised to bring to America during the campaign?

• Yes 31% 
• No 57% 
• Not sure 12%

And the notion that Democrats should back off of healthcare reform is even more roundly rejected:

Would you favor or oppose the national government offering everyone the choice of a government administered health insurance plan — something like the Medicare coverage that people 65 and older get — that would compete with private health insurance plans?

• Favor 82%
• Oppose 14%
• Not Sure 4%

People want Democrats to get with their program and deliver to the American people, not waffle in a lobbyist and faux bi-partisan kabuki dance that delivers nothing or a corporate-sponsored mess.