OCTOBER 18, 2011
Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd
In interviews, protesters show that they are leftists out of
step with most American voters. Yet Democrats are embracing them anyway.
President Obama and the Democratic leadership are making a
critical error in embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement—and it may cost
them the 2012 election.
Last week, senior White House adviser David Plouffe said
that "the protests you're seeing are the same conversations people are
having in living rooms and kitchens all across America. . . . People are
frustrated by an economy that does not reward hard work and responsibility,
where Wall Street and Main Street don't seem to play by the same set of
rules." Nancy Pelosi and others have echoed the message.
Yet the Occupy Wall Street movement reflects values that are
dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people—and
particularly with swing voters who are largely independent and have been
trending away from the president since the debate over health-care reform.
The
protesters have a distinct ideology and are bound by a deep commitment to
radical left-wing policies. On Oct. 10 and 11, Arielle Alter Confino, a senior
researcher at my polling firm, interviewed nearly 200 protesters in New York's
Zuccotti Park. Our findings probably represent the first systematic random
sample of Occupy Wall Street opinion.
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