The article you point out is really interesting, so thanks for bringing that up. However, I take serious issue with the interpretation of the following

Shifting Support for Democratic Party among American Elderly

On the heels of the 2010 mid-term elections, the Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, together with Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, conducted a comprehensive online national poll of political attitudes and behaviors.

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2012 Battlefield

Overall, the results of this survey indicate that the traditional base of support among older voters that Democrats have relied upon since the partisan realignment following the New Deal continues to weaken. While older voters continue to vote in high percentages, compared to younger cohorts, clear support for the Democratic Party is confined largely to African Americans. While older Hispanics generally favored the Democratic Party, they showed substantial willingness to vote for Republican Senatorial candidates in the 2010 midterm election.

Further, the traditional Democratic support among older Caucasians continues to decline, particularly among older Caucasians living in the South. If these trends continue, the 2012 presidential election will require the Democratic Party to continue to bring young, and often unreliable, voters to the polls. Further, the Democratic Party must continue to make inroads into the growing Latino/Hispanic population. If the GOP is able to maintain its grip on older voters in the South, that tend to not only vote at high rates, but are also overwhelmingly conservative, Republican and willing to support GOP candidates

the Democratic presidential campaign strategy will be forced to continue building winning coalitions without the assistance of most of the southern states. With growing populations and over one-third of the Electoral College votes needed to win the Electoral College, losing support among the elderly is an important trend that scholars must continue to monitor....

1. Cut every single program that sends any money or aid to foreign nations!!
2. Do not send one dime to Africa, Israel, Haiti, etc...
3. Bring every foreign stationed troop home within 30 days. Shut down all foreign bases, plastic the furniture, drain water lines, lock them down and 'winterize' them.
4. Cut every form of 'entitlement' to anyone who can't verify a 3 generation lineage in america (bye, bye, anchor baby mama welfare)
5. Cancel all immigrant worker visa programs, give them all 30 days to go whence they came
6. shut down ALL FORMS of immigration. there are enough americans out of work to do every job available!!
7. reduce all the slime in DC to $50,000 a year salaries with strict expense accounting
8. PUT EVERY CEO on wall street in jail awaiting trial, every SEC supervisor too.
9. prosecute the cases Eliot Spitzer compiled (before he was destroyed by hookergate)
these above should be tried before anything else

Originally posted by inforeal
The canard of the Tea Party and Republicans about the deficit is all propaganda. In-fact Bill Clinton easily balanced the budget in the 90’s by merely raising taxes on the rich that produced a surplus.

www.factcheck.org...

The huge tax cut for the rich by Bush in 2001 and his illegal and immoral Iraq war and his bailout of Wall Street in 2008 is the reason for the deficit now. He, Bush, ruined the economy after being left on economic solid ground.


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Just the fact Man, Inforeal!

I haven't heard not one of them on the left or right forfeit their income as our representatives to help with the debt crisis.

Congressman Ron Paul is an original cosponsor on legislation proposed by Representative Harry Mitchell (AZ-5) to block Members of Congress from receiving the automatic pay adjustment scheduled to take effect in 2009.

“With all the waste going on in government, the dollar losing its purchasing power, the collapse of the housing bubble, the economy is really struggling. We Members of Congress should not be padding our pocketbooks when our constituents are tightening their belts,” stated Congressman Paul.

The bill was introduced yesterday and so far Congressman Paul is the only cosponsor. Congressman Paul famously returns a portion of his congressional office budget to the Treasury. He recently estimated he would be able to return $75,000 from last year’s office budget. He also refuses to participate in the lucrative pension program that Congress has awarded itself.
www.reasontofreedom.com...

I don't have time to make comparisons, but clearly minimum wages earners have been screwed, most of whom are young people starting out, and students and such.

In 1976 A typical American CEO earned 36 times as much as the average worker. By 2008 the average CEO pay increased to 369 times that of the average worker. timelines.ws...

The huge tax cut for the rich by Bush in 2001 and his illegal and immoral Iraq war and his bailout of Wall Street in 2008 is the reason for the deficit now. He, Bush, ruined the economy after being left on economic solid ground.

TAX IMPORTS NOT WAGES!

Oh come now, we all know Ron Paul isn't a real politician, with his crazy theories of following the constitution.

Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by inforeal

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*yawn*
Blaming the Tea Party for the financial mess we're in is about as effective as blaming the fork and spoon for a lousy meal.

It's pathetic, seeing the left run around placing blame for Obama's over-spending and poor mis-management of the economy on everyone BUT the person responsible.