MEMORANDUM FROM: BC'04 POLICY DEPARTMENT Senator Kerry has repeatedly tried to talk down a growing economy by focusing only on the most pessimistic of statistics and ignoring the remarkable recovery of an economy that experienced the shocks of the stock bubble burst, recession, terrorist attacks, and corporate scandals. The irony is that the same statistics Kerry campaigned on in 1996 are the same he rails against in 2004. As BusinessWeek recently reported, "On many of the key variables that voters care about, the economy looks uncannily like it did in the summer of 1996, a year when the incumbent was...