Some real estate markets are actually growing.
Things are not as bad as the MSM is saying.
This allows the Democrats to ignore the facts that the economy grew 3.3% in the second quarter.
9% approval of the Democratic controlled congress for the past 2 years says it all. We need more Lawyers in Congress to help the economy, Yeah Right!
This election has been and will be all about Obama. The choice will be do we take a chance with this guy or go with the guy we know.
DANG!! And after they worked so hard to drag it down!!!!!!!
Most people are not selling their homes, and if they are most are still in the black. Food prices are higher relatively speaking but they were rising from a dirt cheap base. The GOP should own the energy issue. If they have any brains at all, they will run ads with Pelosi's ignorant and insulting statements about oil and tie her to Obama.
Democrat lead Congress at 9% approval rating.
Well, since the Democrats are the cause of most of the economic woes today, having been in power for the last year and a half when the economy went south and oil prices skyrocketed, they probably in the end will be happy if it isn’t a factor.
On the other hand, since the measurement of it “not being a factor” is how little it is helping the democrats, I think the truth is it IS a factor but people understand it’s the Democrat’s fault. Thus the 9 percent approval rating.
I hope the economy IS an issue, and that Sarah Palin makes it one. She can very effectively argue that the Democrats are the ones standing in the way of lower energy costs. If some other people tried, they be brushed off as “out of touch stupid white males”.
That’s because people are looking at Obama’s plans to raise taxes going into a slowdown/recession and they understand that this is an idiotic policy. And lets not forget the pie-in-the-sky spending proposals. We’re already running deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars. The taxpayers of this country aren’t completely stupid. They know that we can’t afford his garbage.
That’s the way I explain it, anyway. There’s no other reason that I can see for the fact that McCain is running dead even on the issue when a more sensible economic position from the Dems would have Obama trouncing him with the mood of the country as it is.
Now it is just fine to force affirmative action on someone else, but don't go putting one of those guys in charge of my economy.
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I’d guess that the article was from the op-ed page. Only I know better.
I think the key thing is that the economy has always been better than the MSM has been pushing on us. Constantly, they compare the economy at the apex of the tech boom before the collapse to current data. For most of the Bush years, the economy has been doing pretty well. Not as great as the Clinton years but that was before the tech bubble collapsed which was also on Clinton’s watch.
We saw the same bs from the press during 2004 when they tried to slam bush hard on the economy when it was still recovering quite well from 9/11.
If Hilary were the nominee, the economy would be a bigger plus for Dems because of her husband’s credibility (rightly or wrongly) on the economy. Florida would be in play. Ohio would be a lock for HRC and McCain would be scrambling hard just to look like a credible alternative instead of in a tie.
I say its 3 things: 1)Obama has no credibility on any issue and just gets the generic democratic bump. 2) Voters can blame democrats for high gas prices, not Bush given their intransience. 3) The economy is doing better than it would in a recession, job losses are under 100k a month, 5.7% unemployment is much better than what we’ve seen in previous recessions, and we just had 3% economic growth for the summer months.
If the economy keeps recovering well enough and foreign policy issues get pushed to the forefront before November 3rd, we’re looking golden.
Well if peopel paid attention to what is real and not what they are told to think they would know that immediately when the Bush tax cuts expire that a family of 4 making $30,000 overnight will owe the government an extra $3000 a year. I don’t know how that will work with high energery prices, and food costs but I don’t think they will like it too much. Obama has promised too much to think that the middle class will get a tax cut. Only fools could believe that!
Despite what the administration says about economic growth, the average family in my neck of the woods is not feeling the supposed “good times.” People have used credit to combat inflation and families are coming to the end of that rope where today and yesterday’s bills are coming due.
The Republican talking heads that are blinded to the issue must be above the Madding Crowd. The economy is a big issue and the more “have nots” we have, the greater the populist appeal of wealth redistribution - eg leftist Democratic party.
I hope that Palin still has a connection with the reality of middle class working families and can call Republicans on silly schemes like “tax cuts” to solve the Health Care Insurance issue.
Most the working class love freedom and small government. It is just getting so they can’t afford to hold their own beliefs anymore.
I think many Americans have finally figured out the connection between high gas prices and not drilling for oil. It wouldn’t hurt the McCain campaign to mention Bush’s words on ending the offshore drilling ban. The price of a barrel of oil started dropping almost immediately.