It might be early but I just can’t see southern states like Virginia, North Carolina and Florida going blue again in 2012. Ohio, of course, will be huge again as always. Then we’ve got to get states like Nevada, New Mexico, Indiana and Iowa back in the red.
Well, to do that, the GOP has to have a plan to restore the economy. They don’t. The worst thing about the GOP right now is that they show no understanding, no comprehension of what is wrong in our economy.
All the GOP keeps offering is “tax cuts.” Well, in a debt deflation such as we’re in now, tax cuts are only one piece of several policy possible responses from DC. They’re wholly insufficient for the size and scope of the problem we now face.
The GOP better start worrying about one thing and only one thing going forward: employment. That’s what the 2012 race will turn on — who has the mot credible idea to increase employment (first) and average wages second?