Comments on: The ‘Yes We Can’ orphans: Obama’s missing constituency http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/06/the-yes-we-can-orphans-obamas-missing-constituency/ Sat, 18 May 2013 14:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: AZreb http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/06/the-yes-we-can-orphans-obamas-missing-constituency/comment-page-1/#comment-59432 AZreb Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:13:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=13908#comment-59432 But it is not only the jobs, jobs, jobs and the economy that have alienated many voters - we look at the expanded Patriot Act, the NDAA, the wars, the billions going to other countries, the number of poor and hungry in our country (46 million on food stamps and facing food shortages and much higher pices in 2013), the immigration policies of this administration. We are not "one trick ponies", focusing on one problem or two but many that concern us. Are we 100% happy with the opposition? Maybe not - but we are very disillusioned and disappointed after voting for "hope and change" and seeing the same or worse conditions. But it is not only the jobs, jobs, jobs and the economy that have alienated many voters – we look at the expanded Patriot Act, the NDAA, the wars, the billions going to other countries, the number of poor and hungry in our country (46 million on food stamps and facing food shortages and much higher pices in 2013), the immigration policies of this administration.

We are not “one trick ponies”, focusing on one problem or two but many that concern us. Are we 100% happy with the opposition? Maybe not – but we are very disillusioned and disappointed after voting for “hope and change” and seeing the same or worse conditions.

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