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The Carolina
Review
BIGGEST SIN...The
Democrats won big in last
week’s elections, both
statewide and nationally.
Analysts are suggesting
high unemployment rates,
plus a repugnancy of the
Congressional Club
negativism in North
Carolina, as the primary
reasons for the Republican’s
thrashing.
But a bigger sin may be in
large part responsible. The
Democrats were able to
convince multitudes of
voters that Social Security
benefits were in danger at
the hands of Republicans.
Look here. A while back, a
North Carolina attorney was
planning a serious effort to
gain a seat in the U.S.
Congress. A lifelong
Democrat and previous
officeholder, he was a good
politician.
Like all good politicians in
this computer age, he
realized the need for a
public opinion poll to find
out how the people of his
district (a district with a
good rural - urban mix) felt
about the issues. The
pollster he selected, one
with a good reputation,
suggested he needed to
know something else.
“Sure you need to know
how the people of your
district feel,” the pollster
said, “but more important,
you need to know how the
‘people most likely to vote’
feel.”
Meanwhile, the potential
condidate had some ideas of
his own. For one thing, just
from news reports and his
own knowledge of the ac
tuarial realities of public
finance, he knew the Social
Security program was in big
trouble. Although he knew
he didn’t have all of the
answers to revive and make
survive the program, he at
least wanted to offer the
voters some legitimate
thoughts and options to
consider on such a vital
issue.
Over several weeks time,
the now - definite candidate
put together an enviable list
of no - nonsense proposals on
Social Security. He planned
to offer the proposals as a
starting point for
Congressional consideration
to rescue the program from
the periodic brink of
disaster that, for the past
several years, has kept
older Americnas always
slightly uncomfortable.
Funny thing, though.
When the candidate began
talking about these
proposals, the people would
get itchy. Looking at their
watches, patting their
pockets for a cigarette, feet
shuffling, they would soon
excuse themselves.
Then the pollster came
back with his report.
“Twenty -two per cent of
the people most likely to
vote in the Democratic
primary (in your district)
are currently receiving
some form of benefit from
the Social Security fund,”
the expert said.
The politician, no expert,
still had no trouble realizing
that a lot more of the voters
were also counting on soon
collecting similar benefits.
Human nature being what it
apparently is, the people
“most likely to vote” didn’t
want any changes or
suggestion of change in
something which they had
such a direct interest.
Most only would the “en
viable list” of proposals not
win any votes, but it could
conceivably lose the elec
tion. This particular can
didate lost in the primaries,
not necessarily and
probably not because of his
Social Security ideas. But
the lesson on Social Security
was never more clear.
The Republicans learned
their lesson last week. The
Democrats apparently
already knew it. Those
people “most likely to vote”
get worried when you talk
about changing Social
Security. Everybody in
Washington has been
reminded.
So. As negative and
sneaky as the Congressional
Club can be, and as high as
unemployment truly is, the
biggest sin of this past
election might turn out to be
the Democrat’s politicizing
of the genuine need for
drastic renovation in our
Social Securjtv
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