What do you think Third Way would rather discuss? Economic opportunity or economic fairness? Before anyone takes their polling data too seriously, we should identify what they hope the poll results will find. And it seems to me that one of the Third Way’s core objectives is to convince the Democratic Party to forego efforts at economic fairness. They do not want a more progressive tax system, for example.
Now, their polling data may be accurate and it could be true that the true swing-voters in the key swing states are more interested in a message aimed at economic opportunity than economic fairness, but I’d like to see their data corroborated by a polling outfit that doesn’t have an agenda. I also reject that dichotomy. More economic fairness will lead to more economic opportunity. The two issues are not mutually exclusive.
Mike Lux posted a few days about Turd Way at TGOS. I asked a question, which I’ll ask again here, and no one answered. Who are Turd Way’s donors? Just corporations? Are they ripping off any grannies? And if their donors are only corporations, and other businesses, why should we take them seriously, other than as a threat to destroying the Democratic Party?
I guess I assumed it was just a loose coalition of Prozac addicts.
My question is whether or not anyone is actually paying attention to them, and if so, why?
Slightly off topic, but what’s up with Super Mayor?
More economic fairness will lead to more economic opportunity.
It would be swell if some Democrat would, y’know, actually explain why this is so sometime, in language that’s vivid and comprehensible to ordinary Americans.
well, you know, if you have five bucks you can lend it to your friend and ask for six bucks in return.
Or, you can put it on red and hope to double up.
If you don’t have five bucks, you don’t have the economic opportunity to do either of those things.
But isn’t craps a better game?
For me it certainly is.
I think just about everyone on the left blogosphere thinks that economic fairness leads to more economic opportunity. Obama already links the two in speeches sometimes, it shouldn’t be hard to do it more.
The two issues are not just not mutually exclusive, they are the exact same thing. This is not some thorny philosophical dilemma, it’s simple English. What does “economic opportunity” mean if not a level playing field? This poll pits two meaningless buzzwords against each other, so it is nothing more than a test of which platitude has more knee-jerking power.
This is why I hate polls of this kind. Unless you ask specific questions about specific policies, all you’re doing is a garbage-in/garbage-out demonstration. And garbage has always been Third Way’s special perfume. The very way they formulate their questions reveals their stupid agenda. Dems would do well to regard them with the same trust and respect they give American Crossroads.
That poll was just hash. Third Way’s purpose seems to be to argue that there is a majority independent bipartisan center that lies to the right of Barack Obama.
I think we should concentrate on who is funding them instead of what they are saying.