Yesterday, Darren Samuelson and Edward Isaac Dovere of Politico wrote about a memo by James Carville and pollsters, Stanley Greenberg and Erica Seifert, that addressed “what many in their party have been privately grumbling about for months: It’s still the economy, stupid.”
The memo also says that the incumbent’s talking about how a lousy economy is getting better isn’t doing him any favors with the American people or moving him closer to victory in November.
They then conclude that, “These voters are not convinced that we are headed in the right direction. They are living in a new economy - and there is no conceivable recovery in the year ahead that will change the view of the new state of the country. They actually have a very realistic view of the long road back and the struggles of the middle class - and the current narrative about progress just misses the opportunity to connect and point forward.”
I mention this because it’s another example of a premise I simply have never understood and still can’t at present. Because I believe it doesn’t matter an iota what somebody says when hard facts prove otherwise. And that, in a nutshell is the problem the country faces currently, whereas evidently these “advisors” think a change in message is going to make things better.
However, unfortunately for them, and all of us too, at the moment, the incumbent’s problems aren’t messages and words, he seems to have billions of those. The crux of the issue is, he doesn’t have the required knowledge or skills to deal with the nation’s problems. But I think if he could figure out how to reduce the deficit by a cent a word that he incessantly utters, we’d have a budget surplus in just a few days.
That’s it for today folks.
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