57% of Brown Voters Say Obama "not delivering enough" on change he promised. Independent Voters Not Afraid to Vote for other Party.

Democrats and Republicans would never think of voting for the opposition party, but as Massachusetts voters have shown, independents have no such problem. They voted for change, didn't get it, and decided to try something else. Populist anger on steroids:

NY Times: Stripped of the 60th vote … will Obama now make further accommodations to Republicans … with more bipartisanship, even at the cost of further alienating liberals annoyed at what they see as his ideological malleability?

Or will he seek to rally his party’s base through confrontation, even if it means giving up on getting much done this year?

…will he heed the warnings … clear overtones of dissatisfaction with the administration’s approach so far?

Most ominously, independent voters — who embraced Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign and are an increasingly critical constituency — seemed to have fled to Mr. Brown in Massachusetts, as they did in Virginia and New Jersey last November. It is hard not to view that as a repudiation of the way Obama and Democratic Congressional leaders have run things.

“The failure to understand how anti-establishment the country has become is a big part of the problem,” Joe Trippi, a Democratic political consultant said of Obama and the White House. “He actually led the way on that in the campaign and didn’t recognize what was happening as he was president.”

EVEN SCOTT BROWN VOTERS WANT THE PUBLIC OPTION
Research 2000 Massachusetts Poll Results, at boldprogressives.org

HEALTH CARE BILL OPPONENTS THINK IT "DOESN'T GO FAR ENOUGH"
by 3 to 2 among Obama voters who voted for Brown
by 6 to 1 among Obama voters who stayed home

VOTERS OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORT THE PUBLIC OPTION
82% of Obama voters who voted for Brown
86% of Obama voters who stayed home

OBAMA VOTERS WANT DEMOCRATS TO BE BOLDER
57% of Brown voters say Obama "not delivering enough" on change he promised
49% to 37% among voters who stayed home
PLUS: Obama voters overwhelming want bold economic populism from Democrats in 2010.