Pat Caddell was Jimmy Carter’s main pollster, and was largely ignored when he warned Carter that the voters were going to throw him out of the White House if he didn’t get his act together:
Caddell was, in the words of Teddy White, the “house Cassandraâ€? … Three decades later, Caddell again is warning his fellow Democrats about electoral doom.
And here’s what he says about all that BS that Obama (and Pelosi and Reid) fed congressional Democrats about how the public would be grateful to them for passing Obamacare:
Well, they hate it … The Democrats had a chance to do this right — most people supported aspects of reform — but because of the way it was passed, as a crime against democracy, the country has simply not accepted it. The lies, the browbeating, the ‘deem and pass’ — all of it was a suicide mission.
Caddell was, BTW, one of the few Democrats who predicted (before it was passed) what a disaster Obamacare was going to be for his party. Like Cassandra, however, he is doomed to be prescient and ignored.
Good. If the Dems were smart enough to listen to people like Caddell they might survive the midterms. That would be very bad for the country.
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