# Thank you, Scott Brown! (Gratitude from a Progressive)

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 21, 2010, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-scott-brown-gratitude-from-a-progressive/525830 "2010-01-21T13:20:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-scott-brown-gratitude-from-a-progressive/525830/26 "2010-01-22T04:28:35Z")

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Um, by the way conservatives, ya might wanna take a gander at these numbers:

> [@](#):
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> \*53% of Obama voters who voted for Brown and 56% of Obama voters who did not vote in the Massachusetts election said that Democrats enacting tighter restrictions on Wall Street would make them more likely to vote Democratic in the 2010 elections.
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> \*51% of voters who voted for Obama in 2008 but Brown in 2010 said that Democratic policies were doing more to help Wall Street than Main Street.
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> \*Nearly half (49%) of Obama voters who voted for Brown support the Senate health care bill or think it does not go far enough. Only 11% think the legislation goes too far.
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> ```auto
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> If [you oppose the healthcare reform bill], do you think it goes too far or doesn’t go far enough?
> Obama/Brown Voters NOT ENOUGH TOO FAR NOT SURE
> ALL **36%** 23% 41%
> DEMOCRATS **49%** 18% 33%
> REPUBLICANS 11% 61% 28%
> INDEPENDENTS **38%** 20% 42%
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> [http://pol.moveon.org/brownpoll/](http://pol.moveon.org/brownpoll/)

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_Instructive_.

So much for conservative pipe dreams of:

> [@FatBaldGuy](#):
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> Where in any of the health care debate so far have the Democrats shown any willingness to compromise? By having a 60 vote majority they were able to steamroll their bill through the Senate without regard to any dissent whatsoever.
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> Now that the “super-majority” is gone, there may actually have to be some give and take between the two sides of the aisle in order to get a workable bill that can be agreed on.

and

> [@Does the moderate left in the US need a more radical left](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-moderate-left-in-the-us-need-a-more-radical-left/525412/30):
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> The result: 58% said they wanted smaller government with fewer services, and only 38% said they wanted larger government with more services.
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> The same poll asked people to identify themselves as liberal, moderate, or conservative. The result was 25% liberal, 34% moderate, and 38% conservative.
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> You’re just going to have to face the fact that you live in a center-right country, where most people are skeptical of big government and conservative or moderate in outlook. And that the real liberals are actually a fairly small percentage of the country.
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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12008070&postcount=30](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12008070&postcount=30)

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