What Would It Take For Obama To Get The Teachers' Vote Back?

[Dinger]

And their unions.


**Edited to add that I will acknowledge that he has some teachers who would still vote for him.

[Aramchek]

1. he never lost them.

[Laelth]

3. You make me doubt that you know many teachers.

The ones I know are not voting for Republicans, but they're not happy with Obama, either.

-Laelth

[frazzled]

4. I sat next to a school teacher at a phone bank last month

making GOTV calls for the November elections for OFA. She had recently retired from teaching after many decades of service in the Chicago Public Schools.

We had a nice conversation. She, like so many African Americans, expressed deep anger at her party, the Democrats, for failing to support President Obama from the beginning. The only reason she was there helping them get elected was, as she put it, because she couldn't stand the thought of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner as Majority Leader or Speaker. She wasn't angry at Obama: she was angry at Democrats for the ways in which they have failed to work with and support his agenda.

Believe me, the vast majority of teachers will be voting for Obama. You should get around and meet more of them.

[mzteris]

5. +100

Sometimes I wonder who these people are.

the teachers I know personally are so 180 from what I hear on here. And they're union. and they're democrats. and they're teachers.

[Hannah Bell]

17. i thought the teachers you know worked for charter schools.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I work with many teachers every day. Most don't support Obama.

The vast majority I know won't be voting for him unless there is significant change in his education policies.

[frazzled]

14. What a surprise you should say that.

I would never have imagined.

[adnelson60087]

16. Yes, I agree with this statement

wholeheartedly. Some teachers may truly be uninformed to Obama's role in our educational assault, and still support him. I do encounter these fellow educators from time to time. Eventually, they will figure it out and when that happens, it may be a bad day for Obama's hopes at reelection.

[madfloridian]

18. Strange part of your statement.

"She, like so many African Americans, expressed deep anger at her party, the Democrats, for failing to support President Obama from the beginning. The only reason she was there helping them get elected was, as she put it, because she couldn't stand the thought of Mitch McConnell and John Boehner as Majority Leader or Speaker. She wasn't angry at Obama: she was angry at Democrats for the ways in which they have failed to work with and support his agenda."

So she was angry at those who did not support his school agenda. She and the others you mention did not care if he is doing the right thing for students?

That's odd.

I noticed the OP's profile. Seems she is no longer with us, and that is one less teacher here speaking out for the truth. That's sad.

[Smarmie Doofus]

20. +1.

Am I allowed to say that?

I thought Stalin died in 1950-something.

>>>>.I noticed the OP's profile. Seems she is no longer with us, and that is one less teacher here speaking out for the truth. That's sad.>>>>>>>

[ProgressiveProfessor]

7. Clearly they have no where else to go, so why should he do anything

I don't agree with his actions, but its good political calculus

[yurbud]

6. if there were any he didn't lose it's because they were still in shock and denial

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Objection, Your Honor..

...compound question.

[femmocrat]

9. K&R #5 Well-stated.

All of the above.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. I don't think Obama is planning to win a second term.

[newtothegame]

11. I would be SHOCKED if he's lost ANY votes.

The teachers LOVE the history that they're teaching right now with his election.

[Dinger]

12. ROTFLMFAO

:rofl:

[knitter4democracy]

13. All of the above. I'm just plain disgusted.

Most teachers around here are either Republican or reluctant Dems (conservative area). Add in NCLB, and we're even more disgusted.

[Smarmie Doofus]

15. He's a trainwreck. I gave him a lot of time. But he's a trainwreck.

We need another nominee.

Hopefully Obama won't seek renomination a la Johnson..... and thus avoid a divisive primary ordeal.

[vssmith]

19. The powers that be don't really care about public schools because

they send their kids to expensive private schools--that includes Obama

[Riley18]

21. I think the bottom line is that Obama does not plan on doing

any of the things listed in the poll. He is content with allowing the dismantling of free public education. After all he is a very wealthy man who is well aware that no child of his will ever have to mingle with the likes of our kids.

[Smarmie Doofus]

22. Kick. I'm at work and have nothing better to do.

Tee-hee.