The Democratic Party: Winning the Fight for the Future

I would once again like to applaud the Democratic-led WI Senate for passing comprehensive medical reform, including health care for all WI residents.

It is the right thing to do. Ethically, economically and politically. It is the right thing to do.

We are in a fight for the future. And the Democratic Party is winning:

In the current poll (of Americans 17 to 29), 62 percent said they would support a universal, government-sponsored national health care insurance program; 47 percent of the general public holds that view.
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More than half of Americans ages 17 to 29 — 54 percent — say they intend to vote for a Democrat for president in 2008. They share with the public at large a negative view of President Bush, who has a 28 percent approval rating with this group, and of the Republican Party. They hold a markedly more positive view of Democrats than they do of Republicans.

Among this age group, Mr. Bush’s job approval rating after the attacks of Sept. 11 was more than 80 percent. Over the course of the next three years, it drifted downward leading into the presidential election of 2004, when 4 of 10 young Americans said they approved how Mr. Bush was handling his job.
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The survey also found that 42 percent of young Americans thought it was likely or very likely that the nation would reinstate a military draft over the next few years — and two-thirds said they thought the Republican Party was more likely to do so. And 87 percent of respondents said they opposed a draft.