There is a poll out today that shows the fortune of the Democratic Party sliding dramatically. I am not a big believer that polls tell you much beyond a monetary snapshot–and we know how quickly those polls can change. But, this was the more interesting–and worrisome, from the party’s point of view:

Julie Edwards, 52, an aircraft technician for Boeing Co. in Mesa, Ariz., said she voted Democratic in the past two elections but wasn’t sure how she would vote next time. She wondered why Wall Street firms were bailed out when average Americans needed help. "We can bail out Wall Street, but everybody else has to suffer in spades for it," she said.

   So, here is where we have gotten: the party of the "common person", the party of FDR, the party that was seen as the defender of Main Street, is seen as more interested in protecting the financial elites, not the people.

   More than anything else, this spells disaster for the Democrats in 2010.