CHESSNOID

I don’t live in Massachusetts but I definitely understand the frustrations that the voters are going through there.  I used to be a registered Democrat and am now a registered Independent.  My views on issues are mostly the same, but my views on most politicians have changed.  I see most Republican and Democrat politicians as self serving instead of serving the people.

I am talking about everyone from President Obama to our state senators and representatives.  They all make promises with no intentions of keeping them.  Has anything really changed from the last 8 years of Bush to the first year of Obama?  I don’t see it. It seems like nothing has changed.  Yes, the world seemed to celebrate that Bush was gone and hoped to change our foreign policies and end the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.  So how many troops have we withdrawn? Zero.

Back in 2006, we had a shut out in Congress.  Democrats won across the House and Senate seats because Americans wanted us out of the unpopular wars.  They finally had the majority they claimed they needed to act in the best interest of the American people.  We simply just wanted our troops to come.  After taking the majority, did they execute the will of the American people?  How many troops were they able to bring home?   Same answer: zero.  Did they fail or did they have no intentions of keeping their promises?

There are many issues that seem to overshadow the wars we are engaged in.  We have a failing economy, a growing population of unemployed and homeless people, and big states with budget deficits that will aggravate those issues.  Those are all important issues, yet I think having over 100,000 troops overseas trying to impose democrat ideals under the guise of preventing terrorism while spending over 50% of our taxes on the military would help our economy.

It sounds like I am making a jump with the issues but they are all connected.  Here is an old post I called War in Iraq killing American economy when Bush was still in office.  I am sure this information has been updated but the message is the same.

Here are the tradeoffs :

Taxpayers in the United States will pay $137.6 billion for the cost of the Iraq War in FY 2007. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
40,554,560 People with Health Care for One Year OR
142,451,458 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR
2,971,922 Public Safety Officers for One year OR
2,359,700 Music and Arts Teachers for One Year OR
21,273,964 Scholarships for University Students for One Year OR
10,090 New Elementary Schools OR
1,070,377 Affordable Housing Units OR
60,647,465 Children with Health Care for One Year OR
18,882,942 Head Start Places for Children for One Year OR
2,260,370 Elementary School Teachers for One Year OR
1,988,080 Port Container Inspectors for One year

Notes and Sources
Go to Cost of War Counter

So now we have a Democrat state like Massachusetts ready to revolt not against Democrat politicians, but at the entire establishment. The voters are simply tired of things not getting done in Washington and feel let down by their popular politicians. They are willing to try something new this election. I think they hope that we have “real” change for the better vs a nice slogan for another career politician.

Politico:

A new InsiderAdvantage poll conducted exclusively for POLITICO shows Republican Scott Brown surging to a 9-point advantage over Martha Coakley a day before Massachusetts voters trek to the ballot box to choose a new senator.

According to the survey conducted Sunday evening, Brown leads the Democratic attorney general 52 percent to 43 percent.

“I actually think the bottom is falling out,” said InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery, referring to Coakley’s fall in the polls over the last ten days. “I think that this candidate is in freefall. Clearly this race is imploding for her.”

The numbers show males and independents overwhelmingly breaking for Brown, who has married his GQ looks with a populist tone in a pick-up truck on the campaign trail.

Brown holds a 15-point lead among males and crushes Coakley by 41 points among self-described independents, a group that’s been steadily inching away from the Democratic party over the last year due to growing apprehension with government spending, bailouts and health care reform.

“Men are not going to vote for Coakley at all. You have a very angry male voter who’s repudiating whatever is being said in Washington and they’re taking it out on this woman. And independents are clearly going to the Republican in droves. What’s left are the Democratic voters,” said Towery, who is a former aide to Newt Gingrich.

And the survey shows almost a quarter of Democratic voters lining up with Brown.

A DailyKos/Research 2000 poll released Monday painted a much tighter campaign, showing the race knotted at 48 percent each.

“We’re about to learn whether Obama can deliver electoral votes,” wrote DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas on his Twitter page.

But that three-day survey was conducted between Friday and Sunday, whereas the entire InsiderAdvantage phone survey of 804 likely registered voters was completed Sunday night.

Towery noted his polling indicates President Barack Obama’s Sunday visit to the Bay State for Coakley won’t be enough to pull her over the finish line.