Yes We Will!

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November 09, 2009

President Obama was elected on an agenda of change: "Yes We Can!"

Unfortunately President Obama's change agenda has run into a brick wall of "No We Can't," led by the entire Republican Party plus "BlueDog" conservative Democrats in the Senate and House.

If we want President Obama's change agenda to succeed, we must replace anti-change Republicans and Democrats in the 2010 election with pro-change candidates.

To succeed, we must unite the broad progressive movement behind a broad slate of pro-change candidates. We're calling this strategy: "Yes We Will!"

Below is a spreadsheet with the Senators and Representatives from every state. The first page contains the Issues we all care about: healthcare, jobs, wars, climate, etc. We'll score every politician (incumbent and challenger) on a scale of 1 (best) to 5 (worst) on each of those issues.

The second page contains the hottest races nationwide with our best "Yes We Will!" candidates (and the worst incumbents, even if no pro-change candidate has stepped forward). The remaining pages list every Senator and Representative, along with their challengers.

Our very first challenge is to recruit "Yes We Will!" candidates in as many races as possible. And for that, we need your help.

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Where do you get your statistics showing...

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12/23/09
11:02pm

Where do you get your statistics showing Americans supporting the "public option" and "Medicare Buy-In?" I'm curious about where these figures come from.

Joel Keller

What stats?

12/24/09
9:20am

joelsk44039, There are no statistics about Public Option or Buy In in this forum topic. You must be on something.

Any way all you have to do is research the topic of public option and medicare buy in on the net and you will find a number of polls that do indeed state Americans (except republicans) favor both of these.

By the way show me polls that state the majority of Americans are happy with their health insurance.
(except republicans)

Turn off fox and try to be objective.

The latest Quinnipiac Poll

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12/24/09
9:44am

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1295.xml?ReleaseID=1408

[voters] back two options cut from the Senate bill, supporting 56 - 38 percent giving people the option of coverage by a government health insurance plan and backing 64 - 30 percent allowing younger people to buy into Medicare.

Bob, very interesting

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12/24/09
1:29am

My name is Jeff Roby (fullCourtPrez@comcast.net). I have developed a plan called the Full Court Press ( http://www.antemedius.com/content/full-court-press-435-democratic-congre... ) committed to fielding 435 congressional candidates in 2012, based on unity around something like:

Support WPA-style jobs program
Medicare for all, kill the mandate
Repeal the Hyde Amendment and its ilk
U.S. out of Afghanistan and Iraq

It is more focused on 2012 than 2010, differs from yours in some significant ways, but clearly they overlap. At some point, we should talk.