How The Economy Collapsed As a Political Issue
Assuming the various surveys included are correct, the answer is fairly simple for me. Team Obama has been doing everything it can to talk about anything but the economy. The media has pretty much followed suit.
Meanwhile, Romney has given them far too many openings because he sux as a politician and Team Romney has, thus far, looked like a great reason to relegate a good many folks with their eyes on hanging out a political shingle in Washington to the hinterlands, never to be seen, or heard from, again.
They may have been good at knee-capping a fair number of Republican primary competitors, but Romney mostly kept his team in place for the general and as hesitant as I’ve been to state it so candidly – they, do indeed, suck at mounting a national campaign!
Now, I’ll go back to being a good partisan and keep blaming the media for everything. But someone – and probably more than a few people, need a good ass kicking if the dust settles around a significant GOP loss in November. Axelrod is eating their lunch.
This is one of the central mysteries of 2012: How did we stop focusing on the economy? Because if there was anything everyone — both campaigns, pundits of all stripes, journalists like us — agreed on, it was that the economy would be the central and decisive issue of the presidential election. A raft of polls seemed to support this: Surveys from ABC, NBC, CBS, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Rasmussen have all put “the economy” or some variation at the top of voters’ minds.
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Hmmm… lets see… in August it was Romney’s dog that kept us from talking about the economy… and in September it was Romney’s outrageous “shoot first, aim later” claim that Benghazi was a terror attack when it later turned out…. um… to be a terror attack…. um…. but, yeah, that Romney sure does suck.
I’m of the opinion that Dan’s attitude is what sucks.
A 1.3 rate of growth in the GDP was not even reported on two of three of the networks.
Romney and Ryan are out in the hustings drawing huge, enthusiastic crowds, and you don’t even see it reported in the local news sometimes.
And this is somehow Romney’s fault?!?!
I find the idea that the economy is not the first, second and third priority of nearly 60% of the electorate impossible to believe.
And I don’t think those folks need the media to actually do its job by reporting economic statistics to tell them what’s going on. This is something that they feel in their everyday lives.
What’s more is I think the vast majority of those folks know that Romney is their only shot at improving things.
I don’t agree that Romney sucks, whatever that means. I actually think he’s a decent candidate, but not a great one.
The central failing of this campaign has been not speaking over the heads of the media, by making bold statements that the media must report whether they like it or not.
I see no reason to give up the ship.
Oh, may I mention something that really does suck. The full justification of the comments’ margins on the new site.
I second that!
heh Dan … How many more times are you going to frag Romney before election day ?
looks like I need to reduce my RSS feeds by one …