re: #241 jimbo2150

And what about choice? If I choose to pay for healthcare… I have to pay the governement. Not so progressive.

What, exactly, do you think might have passed as progressive healthcare reform? The more progressive reform would have meant nationalize healthcare.

So ask me again why people didn’t vote this time…

The youth and minority vote he got last time was an anomaly. It is very tall order to get those groups to remain politically active.

Actually his constituents did. He hasn’t. :/

Perhaps, but promised progressives and liberals a lot. Not something you should do when your main base came from Universities. I am in college and in 08 I saw, for the first time, lines formed at the “sign up to vote” tables around campus. No such luck since then.

Youth and minorities came out to support him, to a large degree, because he was the first African American with a shot at being president. Also, the Republicans had clearly been a disaster, Iraq was a mess, and the economy was going down the toilet. This was an unusual set of circumstances that produced an unusual political climate. It isn’t Obama’s fault that those constituencies faded back into the woodwork after the elecdtion. His administration should have done more to maintain their involvement, no doubt a huge mistake - but these are well-established tendencies.