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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:05 PM
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Issue that will dominate the 2010 election: Immigration? Oil Spill? Economy/jobs?
Gay rights? Abortion? Environment? Health Care? Financial reform?
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:06 PM
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1. I'll go with Wall Street and the economy
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:07 PM
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2. Agreed
Ecological events rarely become campaign issues.
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MadBadger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:07 PM
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3. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:08 PM
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4. Economy and Jobs.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:09 PM
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6. cute map....lol
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daylan b Donating Member (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:09 PM
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5. Health Care
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:13 PM
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7. Jobs, jobs, jobs...
not until every person who needs a job is employed can we even remotely consider other issues at the top of the list.
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daylan b Donating Member (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:17 PM
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11. Well, considering that will never happen, you've sort of set up a false premise
There will always be people in between jobs, even in a near perfect economic climate.
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theothersnippywshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 06:33 PM
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15. That has to be the most ignorant thing ever posted on the internets. n/t
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The Northerner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:13 PM
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8. The economy will likely be the prime issue
as well as financial reform, energy reform, campaign finance reform, etc.

But still, it should be the ECONOMY.
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BlueDemKev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:16 PM
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9. Economy and the National Debt
Not good for our side. Voters usually blame the party in power for not making the economy better and the American people only seem to obsess about the national debt when Democrats are in office.

Nevertheless, let's work hard and do our best. We've got a hard-fought, well-earned health care reform law to protect and it's imperative that we keep the tea-baggers out of power. The words "House Speaker John Boehner" sounds even scarier than "Speaker Newt Gingrich."
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:16 PM
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10. Obama trying to steal America's Precious Bodily Fluids
Or some such nonsense promoted by the mainstream RW corporate media to distract people from real issues.
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:19 PM
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12. Jobs Without a Doubt n/t
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:22 PM
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13. Jobs = Visceral . . . . . . all else: Too Esoteric for American Low Info Moro . . . er . . . Voters
There will actually be noise on all these issues, but the real turning point will be jobs. Everything else is a distraction when people are personally hurting.

The Professional Fomenters will try to gin up some issue or another that we haven't even thought of.
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theothersnippywshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 05:27 PM
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14. Size of government. Nothing else will come close.
Size of government will be the most important issue to at least 40-50% of the voters this fall. The economy will be second at 25-30%.
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Infinite Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 06:39 PM
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16. The #1 will be Management/Budget. If Dems show themselves to be competant managers of the nation...
in the next few months, it will be a good year.
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ipaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 07:02 PM
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17. They'll try desperately to make it about the deficit but with 400,000
long term unemployed exhausting the last tier of the unemployment extension per month by then, it will be about the LACK of jobs despite the weak stimulus and wall street gains.
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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 07:07 PM
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18. Jobs and the economy -- environmentalism is unaffordable
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 07:23 PM
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19. Economy, jobs, and also, jobs
and the economy. The actual economy that people live in.
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Atticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-01-10 08:01 PM
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20. I figure it's a toss-up:
Concealed carry or secession.
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