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FOR Social Security reformers, the good news is how quickly the public has moved forward. People have become more receptive to the idea of investing some of their Social Security payments themselves. Exit polls from the 2000 election found that 57 percent of voters supported that reform. The bear market has cut that support, but only a little. The bad news, though, is that reform is going to have to win the backing of a significant number of congressional Democrats to get enacted. And the Democrats—even their best and brightest—are moving backward.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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FOR Social Security reformers, the good news is how quickly the public has moved forward. People have become more receptive to the idea of investing some of their Social Security payments themselves. Exit polls from the 2000 election found that 57 percent of voters supported that reform. The bear market has cut that support, but only a little. The bad news, though, is that reform is going to have to win the backing of a significant number of congressional Democrats to get enacted. And the Democrats—even their best and brightest—are moving backward.