I wouldn’t put too much trust in these early numbers.
By November, gasoline could be hitting the $4.00/gal mark and associated increases in food, utilities, goods and services will continue.
Those prices will impact consumers who may feel pinched by those prices. If so, they will vote with their pocketbooks; they will vote for ‘change’. And that is not good news for any GOP candidate.
[The excuse that the Dems have the Congress won’t fly. They have only been in the majority 2 years. The GOP had control for 12 years in the House and over half-a-decade in the Senate. The GOP expects to lose more House and Senate seats in November. McCain has an uphill battle, and economics is not his strong suit.]
I think that forcast has more to do with your personal political opposition to McCain then objective consideration of the facts.
BTW, Gas will be selling for less per gallon national on Nov 1st then it is right now. Care to make a bet on it?
By November gas will be hitting $4 a gallon you say??
Where do YOU live??
Gas is already hitting $5 in many places and likely could see $8.oo per gallon by November... especially if some Iran problems light up...
Liberals face an uphill battle too - to prove they’re not liberals. That’s why they’ve only held the WH twice since 1964. Two years after Watergate, Jimmy Carter barely won. Clinton won because he ran as a conservative - and because Perot took votes away from Bush I.
Telling voters you’re going to take more money out of their pocket in taxes isn’t a good economic policy either.
“The excuse that the Dems have the Congress won’t fly”
Even though the Dems are making things worse daily with their bad ideas, even though they are more responsible for things now than a GOP that hasnt been in power for a while, even though its the Dems who stopped ANWR drilling that could reduce gas prices, even though their ideas and policies are dreadful, we have to blame a party out-of-power for things the Dems are responsible for.
That makes sense (sarc).
“Those prices will impact consumers who may feel pinched by those prices. If so, they will vote with their pocketbooks; they will vote for ‘change’. And that is not good news for any GOP candidate.”
We have to fight this nonsense that gets the Dems off the hook. Obama has been in DC the last 4 years. Name a single stinkin idea he or any Dem came up with that would do a lick of good on this. He has none. He’s a empty suit with a socialist program.
“economics is not his strong suit.”
strong suit? When it comes to economics ... McCain’s got a low pair and Barack got a 10-high hand-of-nothing and bluffing.
At least mccain has got phil gramm’s advice on taxes and spending and health care, if he sticks with that, conservatives will be well-served.