Poll: Dems Should Pass Their Agenda -- The People Against It Weren't Voting For Them Anyway

They don't have 60 votes in the Senate. They accepted that framing and can't get the American people to understand that it is Republican obstructionism that is breaking the Senate.

I think Obama might need to do a prime time presser to get the point across. Dems only had 60 votes for what five months? Franken was sworn in on July 7th 2009 giving the Dems their 60th Senator. Ted Kennedy died August 25th and Kirk wasn't sat to September 24th.

And even when the Dems had 60 seats they had Lieberscum and Nelson threatening filibusters. 58 seats and 58 votes wasn't enough for the Republicans. Bring out charts showing how the GOP used the cloture vote more times in one year than any other President faced in their four years or even eight years.

Pass. The. Damn. Bill.

Duh. They needed a poll to tell them this? Dems are just brain dead. They put all this stuff into bills to get repuke votes and they get none, so why do it in the first place. Pathetic.

A large fraction of those who oppose the current bill are opposing it from the LEFT - they think it doesn't go far enough.

This poll confirms what has been obvious to most of us in the thinking portion of the Democratic party for a long time, but will probably come as news to a great many members of Congress.

The Dems have no clue. Day after day I see Dem spokespeople fail miserably at the sound bite game on teevee when it would be so easy, with so much ammunition to absolutely destroy conservatives, yet they don't. Day after day. How hard would it be to drum a phrase like 'country club conservative' into the public's mind? Not very hard, yet the simple things always escape this Party. Could these talking heads hammer the fact that the Repukes are responsible for about 80% of the deficit? Sure, it would be easy....but they don't. Is it so hard to splice together contradictory statements by Repukes on almost any subject for boffo political ads? Naw, but the desire is lacking apparently. It's hard to believe that smart people can't see these things, can't find a plan of action to take advantage.....maybe the really don't want to?

Poll on the Tea Bagger movement:

'But both surveys also yield evidence that most Americans know little or nothing about the movement, and some additional results suggest that those who are only "somewhat" supportive hold positions that may be at odds with those frequently associated with the movement. Here is more from the ABC News report:'
http://www.pollster.com/blogs/tea_party_polling.php

Tons of ammo for Dems here that they won't use.

"They are pathetic at messaging and marketing."

You've hit the nail on the head. I believe the vast majority of Dems are people who are innately suspicious of marketing and advertising, and believe that in a perfect world it would be unnecessary to resort to such crude hucksterism to persuade people. Simple, plain, cold facts and logic should be enough. My parents were emblematic of this attitude, and so are most of the Dems I know, most of whom are or were educators, creatives, librarians, university or gov't employees, or self-employed consultants who engage in active marketing with the greatest reluctance.

By contrast, Republicans, coming mostly from the business class, come to politics having already embraced marketing, and pursue it gleefully and zestfully, regardless of what sort of lies and horseshit they're peddling. It's just part of normal business to them, and so they run rings around Democrats in the area of marketing, positioning, and messaging. Unfortunately, Obama and his "brain trust" are just as clueless as the rest of them.