President Obama Needs To Put Economic Issue as Priority

This year is the US midterm election year. However, before the congressional election can begin, the Democratic Party has already lost the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Senator Edward Kennedy in this important state held by the Democratic Party for the past 47 years. The defeat of Democratic Party in this Senate bi-election is without doubt, a blow to President Obama who has put high hope to push forward the health care medical plan during his term as US President. The defeat in Massachusetts has also served a warning for him in the implementation of national policies.
The main reason why the Democratic Party could lose this stronghold Massachusetts's senate seat to the relatively unknown Republican candidate by the name Brown can be attributed to the fact that the independent voters and those non-partisan voters who used to support Obama during the presidential election have turned away from the Democratic Party. They have become unhappy over the huge spending plans of the Obama government.

Important Issues
In this regard, US voters' inspired hope and enthusiasm for reform stirred by President Obama during the presidential election campaign period have also faded due to the political cruelty. On foreign and environmental affairs, President Obama has produced a number of achievements. On domestic affairs, he has also prevented the US banking system from collapse. However, since June 2009, President Obama has devoted too much political capital to make sure that his health reform bill could sail through the Congress. He has neglected the two important issues that are most important to the voters. These two include having secure job and stable family life.
In the past year, what the voters saw was economic winter with no sign of recovery. Besides, there was also the scary figure of ten percent unemployment rate. Two months ago, the Democrat has already lost the governor posts in New Jersey and Virginia to the Republican. Such defeats have already revealed the political reality that the independent and Democratic voters were dissatisfied with Obama Government's policies. The defeated bi-election battle in Massachusetts was a whack on the Democratic Party's face.

Reform Wagon
The House and Senate have passed the health care reform bill. What required next is for both the House and senate health care bill to combine and come out with a final version of the act. However, the by-election result of the Massachusetts Senate seat has now caused grave uneasiness to the moderate Democratic congressional representatives seeking re-election at the November congressional election. Some Democrat congressional representatives might just jump down from President Obama's reform wagon in order to save their respective congressional seats.
The present situation of President Obama is like 'burning candle at both ends.' In order to allow the combined senate and house health care medical bill to get through, Obama might have to trim the bill to the 'core content.' At the same time, in order for the congressional representatives from the Democratic Party to continue supporting his reform agenda, the most important issue for President Obama to do is to resolve the pending economic issue, which is of direct bearing to the voters' benefits.