Poll: Sharron Angle Leads Harry Reid to Open Nevada Senate Race

The only Americans behind Sharron Angle are far right wing nuts. Statements by her lately illustrates she is on the fringe of ultra conservatism. This outward move to the right will be her political downfall. Independents will not vote for right wing insanity. This is 07/18/2010 and Harry Reid is leading by 9 points. Goodby and good ridance to radicals.

Packeryman of TX 1:00PM July 18, 2010

I went to your quoted site and just voted 10 times; that means your site is as effective as your party at telling the truth or projecting honesty. Little innefective polls do not sway the intelligence of voters who have become intollerable of the party of liers.

dino of NV 1:53AM July 12, 2010

Sharron- America is behind you 100%.

Megan of GA 7:56PM July 09, 2010

I read your link Bill. You don't seem to get that it was a criticism not a vindication of your position. Progressive Democrats like myself have been criticizing Obama all along for these policies. Teabaggers who call Obama a "socialist" do so as a smear tactic which is also most likely motivated by racial prejudice. Obama was not actually my first choice during the early phase of the Democratic primary; I supported Dennis Kucinich and sometimes considered John Edwards. Here's how your link from FDL explains the motivation behind privatizing Social Security;

"What Wall Street wants is to wind up with a good chunk of the Social Security trust fund in its own coffers. Where that intersects with the objectives of the commission remains to be seen, but the fact is that Obama has packed it with people who have a strong history of supporting both reducing benefits and privatization. Even the token “liberals” like Jan Schakowsky have a history of abandoning their strongest principles when the President asks it of them, and Dick Durbin is now telling “bleeding heart liberals” to be open to benefit cuts for the sake of the fiscal responsibility."

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/05/10/obama-packs-debt-committee-with-supportes-of-social-security-benefit-cuts-and-privatization/

This is all about the financialization of the US economy more than even politics although Wall Street campaign donors gave more money to Obama than they gave to any other candidate. The financial industry has come to dominate the US economy. A recent Monthly Review article puts it this way;

"[What we are seeing]is the historically unprecedented increase in the share of financial profits (i.e., the profits of financial corporations), rising from 17 percent of total domestic corporate profits in 1960, to a peak of 44 percent in 2002. Although the share of financial profits fell to 27 percent by 2007, on the brink of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (partly due to gains in industrial profits in this period), it remained steady as the crisis deepened, and rebounded in the first three quarters of 2009 to 31 percent, well above its pre-crisis level—thanks to the federal bailout..."

http://monthlyreview.org/100501foster-holleman.php

Financialization is a direct consequence not only of the decline of the real economy through outsourcing and globalization but of tax cuts for the rich and declining real middle class incomes forcing both the government and working families to live off debt rather than progressive taxation and rising real incomes as before 1980. As a result of this trend, the US economy has concentrated and become slower growing due to a lack of effective consumer demand to stimulate growth and excessive financial activity which doesn't add to the economy's capital stock but only transfers wealth instead of creating it. This is why progressives support real income redistribution. It is chronic stagnation that has caused large growing deficits.

steve of IL 2:36PM June 14, 2010