Posted on 08/19/2019 5:47:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
When Bill Clinton successfully unseated sitting President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville coined the phrase, “It's the economy, stupid” as a campaign theme.
Despite a 90 percent job approval rating just a year earlier after a successful ground war in Kuwait, Bush squandered his political capital by reneging on his own campaign promise from the previous election: “Read my lips, no new taxes.”
Bush signed on to a Democrat tax bill, raised taxes, watched his job approval drop faster than Bill Clinton’s pants, and lost reelection in 1992.
In the Trump era, it’s still the economy, with record low unemployment, particularly for women, blacks, and Hispanics. The stock market has been on a tear, despite a recent and expected selloff. America is at full employment with more jobs available than employees to fill those jobs.
Consumer confidence surged to a near 18-year high, demonstrating that voters share in the optimism and enthusiasm of these strong economic indicators. Trump’s economy is not even running on all cylinders yet as his proposals still meet with resistance from Democrats and many NeverTrump Republicans.
The media only reluctantly reports strong economic news, being careful to not attribute any of it to President Trump. Instead they try to make the case, as NPR did, that today’s economic juggernaut is due to the last president, now over 2 ½ years out of office. Another of many examples of fake news and history revision, a staple of modern media.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I hope that America’s enemies on the left will ignore this commentary and focus on the polls. I don’t want them to figure out just how much work they need from their vote fraud department.
I agree.
Why is the government supporting NPR?
Piece of excrement article disintegrates entirely in the opening sentence of the second paragraph.
I don’t think that there would be any possible way for it to recover intellectually after that trainwreck.
The article fails to mention the US went into a mild recession. However, NAFTA was being proposed and the little guy from Texas came along and split the vote of the conservatives and blue collar workers.
If it was not for Ross Perot, Bush probably would have been reelected.
Clinton got 42% of the vote in a three way race. The media also held back positive economic news until the day after the election. I still remember Peter Jennings giving the positive news the day after Clinton was elected.
Still if Bush was really a conservative, he would have won.
He was a good diplomat. He put together a great coalition to defeat Saddam. However, NAFTA was a bad deal for the US blue collar worker. It was great for the globalist corporation. Perot was correct with the GIANT SUCKING SOUND.
The factory worker got screwed. Labor intensive manufacturing moved to Mexico or off shore.
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It’s odd how some black districts have more people voting than people who live in the district... AND YET NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN LARGE BLACK CROWDS TURN OUT TO SUPPORT ANYONE... NOT OBAMA - NOT BIDEN - NOT ANY POLITICIAN...
What’s with that?
Oh that? That’s simple. That’s the dead vote. You don’t see them at the rallies because no one can see ghosts.
Looking up ‘the dead’ to vote them would take forever... what democrats do is they vote the people who don’t show up to vote.
Since the dead never show up they get caught up in the larger fraud.
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