Astounding Numbers of Obama Voters and Democrats Regret Voting for Re-Election of America's Messiah



Kyle Becker | On 18, Feb 2014

It was supposed to be the era of Hope and Change.

A post-racial president transcending the red state, blue state politics of those dark, nasty Bush years of 5% unemployment or less and sub-trillion dollar deficits – nirvana for the smart-set smug that one of their own, a loquacious Harvard-educated representative of the elite class sansthat annoying Texas drawl, and a professional agitator to boot had strode aloft the marble steps of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The One for whom all of America had been waiting for, the fundamental transformer of the world’s most piteous economy, had finally ascended to the Oval Office, the precipice of power from which the dictates of progressive conventional wisdom would rain down upon us like so much manna from on high.

From the One’s circuitous office bestriding the concentric rings of Washington District of Columbia, the affairs of hundreds of millions of men would align within the Orbit of Obama. Like planetary dust falling upon the gravitational path of this giant among men, the lives of mankind were to become but a beauteous adornment for this American Saturn, this towering transformational figure reminiscent of the Roman god of abundance and renewal.

Never mind all that. An overwhelming majority wish the president had never been re-elected. From an Economist/YouGov poll via the Examiner:

Over seven in 10 Obama voters, and 55 percent of Democrats, regret voting for President Obama’s reelection in 2012, according to a new Economist/YouGov.com poll. [...]

The poll asked those who voted for Obama’s reelection a simple question: “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?”

— Overall, 71 percent said yes, 26 percent no.

— 55 percent of Democrats said yes, as did 71 percent of independents.


Obama supporters said they would stick with their guy over Mitt Romney, 79 percent to 10 percent. Since Mitt Romney was the “moderate’s moderate,” it might be time for the GOP to consider giving voters a starker choice.

The progressive status quo that has been ongoing for a century is clearly not working, and as hard as it may be for Washington beltway types to believe, a lot of people don’t want less of big government, they don’t want big government at all.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/1160...g-re-election/