Praying for a new day to dawn
in the 1st District!
Things are looking rosier all the time....
Not spooked by class warfare
Washington Times
Three veteran Democratic strategists are telling their party's candidates not to play up the economy as an election issue in the final days of the campaign.
The reason? It doesn't help Democrats.
This surprising advice from three Clinton-Gore campaign consultants — James Carville, pollster Stanley Greenberg and Robert Shrum — has cast a pall of gloom over many Democratic leaders.
It flatly contradicts the central campaign strategy devised by Democratic leaders Richard A. Gephardt and Tom Daschle. Moreover, it apparently rejects polls showing that the economy remains voters' No. 1 concern.
But a detailed memo that Messrs. Carville, Shrum and Greenberg circulated to Democratic officials said, "While the economy is creating the desire for change and impatience with the Republicans, it is not the kind of wedge or unambiguous campaign issue that should become your sole focus in the last week." Statistics from Mr. Greenberg's Oct. 22-24 poll of 1,001 likely voters delivered the bad news: Republicans have a one-point edge over the Democrats on who can best handle the economy. "Today, the country splits evenly on which party to trust on the economy," according to the memo. [snip]