GOP captures 30% of voters who want more spending to create jobs

Will these confused souls hold their elected officials accountable?

After screaming about jobs jobs jobs it was evident to me that this was not on the table. If we wanted to we would have done it.

do you ever stop and contemplate before you imply these things?

it's about government spending to create jobs.

And I am beyond frustrated at the situation. I simply don't believe there was any desire to use government spending to help create jobs. If no one will do it then you vote on other criteria.

... you get voters who are upset with the economy but want the government to be more active in fixing it. Many Republicans won on the idea that the economy should be better by this point (papering over the structural problems in banking they themselves caused). However, they didn't offer a message deeper than that. They've set themselves up to disappoint their own supporters.

Most of the blame for that should go to the media and the lying Republicans. It is absolutely disgusting that they never called republicans - like Scott Brown - who said the most important thing to do was to to create jobs and the stimulus didn't create any. Many media people didn't bother to ask him why he (and the other Republicans) voted against jobs bills.

What is clear in retrospect is that the following were RW talking points:

1) Obama worked on his agenda instead of working to create jobs - ignoring that most of what he did at the beginning was precisely directed at it.

2) All the RW talking heads spoke of the goal as creating jobs. (Yet they also spoke of spending too much money)

Not to mention, they counted on the fact that only the wealthier 1/3rd was benefiting from the much improved stock market - and they mostly voted Republican - possibly to keep their tax cuts. The rest of the country are hurting and are being told by the RW that the Democrats were not working on fixing the economy. (Coming back from voting, I listened to Bloomberg radio speak of the stocks for companies that benefit from high end discretionary spending were booming - they were and still are. Look up the chart for an high end company you can think of.)