A battle progressives can win: Bush's privatization splinters Republicans and unites Democrats.(A Special Report On Saving Social Security)
American Prospect, The, February, 2005 by Hickey, Roger
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PRESIDENT BUSH CLAIMS THE 2004 election gave him a mandate to pursue his No. 1 second-term priority, the partial privatization of Social Security. But the voters don't think so. Only 35 percent of Americans think Bush has a mandate "to allow workers to invest some of their Social Security taxes in the stock market" while 51 percent say he has no such mandate, according to the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted just after Bush's re-election victory.
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