US Election Exit Poll Defies Conventional Wisdom
There is a dim light, beginning to shine through the clouds down there to our south.Apart from voting down the majority of the progressive social ballot issues, the US voters got it right yesterday, handing the house, and likely the Senate to the dems.
I was particularly drawn to a stat that CNN brought up in its coverage:
"Defying the traditional political maxim that "all politics is local," 62 percent of voters said in exit polls that national [and foreign policy] issues mattered more than local issues."
I've always been disheartened by the reality that the majority of voters think local first and foremost. The reasons unfortunate, once again, not since Vietnam, a brutally mishandled war and the loss of thousands of American lives, appears to have shifted the voting psyche outward. Taxes and jobs, for once, were not front burner issues.
I was born in 1979, let’s say I live to be a one hundred year old man in this game of life, and I die in 2079. Likely, my lifetime will experience the ebb and flow of 30+ bear and 30+ bull economies, the rise and fall of the national jobless rate, and the continuous adjustments to tax policy (Income Trusts anyone?).
I say; when it’s all over –in the grand scheme, issues as such, like the value of my poorly diversified RRSP, won’t hold relevance.
Statistics such as the percentage of the worldwide population that live on less than a dollar a day, the change in the quality of life for people living (especially women) in places such as the Middle East, rural China and Africa, the availability of medical care for children, not to mention the level of nuclear arms proliferation. Upon these issues our lifetime’s legend will be judged, unfortunately we’ve had a really rough first quarter.
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Great post.
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