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kpete

(71,996 posts) Tue Jan 28, 2014, 01:33 PM Jan 2014

What Voters Really Care About

a useful chart as we prepare for the State Of The Union

http://www.people-press.org/2014/01/27/deficit-reduction-declines-as-policy-priority/

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What Voters Really Care About (Original Post) kpete Jan 2014 OP

It's sad that the poor and needy are so far down. HappyMe Jan 2014 #1

That's worth remembering el_bryanto Jan 2014 #2

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)

1. It's sad that the poor and needy are so far down.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 01:39 PM

Jan 2014

I would like to see the lobbyists and the election money situation further up too.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

2. That's worth remembering

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2014, 01:39 PM

Jan 2014

It's an oddity of our political discourse that the Deficit is such a key debating position; or rather it's an example of Washington caring what Washington (and Wall Street) thinks, and not really dwelling on what the rest of the country is concerned with.

Bryant

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