I'm voting, I'm voting, I'm voting in the Mid-term!! BUT....I'm mad as hell that the Democratic Party, the party of the people are giving up on the middle class tax cut BEFORE the mid-terms. In the meantime there has been some excellent coverage today on a possible vote on closing loopholes for companies who ship jobs overseas and giving those tax breaks to companies who create jobs right here at home. The vote will probably happen later tonight but you can see some really good Dems making excellent points about this no-brainer C-SPAN. However, we should expect a filibuster.
I am surprised at how little coverage this has gotten. This is a pretty important issue. This could potentially be a real winner for the American people as well as the Democratic Party in the last 5 weeks before the mid-terms. If the Republicans cave we get more government help in protecting American jobs if we don't get Republican support we can make a pretty big distinction between the parties to an angry electorate that has lost more than 8 million jobs over the last 4 years or so. The Democratic Party is still in this race even though the mainstream media wants to tell us different. TomP had an excellent diary today acknowledging this fact. Also, we've been hearing so much about the President's job approval which can range from anywhere between 43 (Gallup) - 48% on the same day but no one has bothered to look at his favorability rating. It is astonishingly high considering what the MSM feeds us as to how angry and hostile the electorate is against President Obama. I was often told people vote more so for people they like so this is a really important number
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Anyway, this is the mid-terms and most folks are angry and feel like government is not working for the American people and that anger is not only directed at Democrats the Republicans have even less favorable ratings than the Dems. In Nate Silver's article where he wrote about Generic Ballots may be underestimating Democrat support. He noted 538:
In the last couple of posts on our House forecasts, I’ve noted that the generic Congressional ballot tends to show worse results for Democrats than other indicators like polls of individual House races. The generic ballot, as of last week, pointed toward a Republican lead of 7 or 8 percentage points among likely voters, according to our estimates. Local polls are a little bit less straightforward to read because you have to make a lot of adjustments for polls that are (i) partisan, (ii) bad, or (iii) both. But in general — while there is a lot of variance from district to district — the local polls seem to point toward a House vote that would be about evenly divided.
Anyway, I say all this to say...lets continue to door knock, make phone calls, talk to our friends and neighbors and prove the naysayers wrong.