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January 06, 2005

That Surplus

I was looking at some Georgia exit polls from '98, 2000 and 2004 and came across something interesting. In 2000, the US had a pretty big surplus and it was a campaign issue in the Presidential election, namely what to do with it. Haha -- surplus! Those were the days.

Anyway, the exit pollsters offered 4 choices for respondents. One was to use it for a tax cut and most of those voters obviously preferred Bush over Gore. Interestingly, in Georgia more voters preferred using it for "social security." And those voters favored Bush nearly 2:1.

So either those voters thought that Bush should use that surplus money to fund privitization (not likely!) or a lot of people that like social security just fine supported Bush in 2000 and probably this past year too.

It's nice to see some evidence that protecting social security can be a killer issue for Democrats, and that exit poll evidence seems to be pretty solid. Now if I could only get TivoToGo...

Posted by Chris at January 6, 2005 05:55 PM

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