James Carville became famous back in 1992 for saying, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
David Plouffe, who ran President Obama’s 2008 campaign and is already hard at work on his 2012 campaign, doesn’t have the luxury of criticizing a sitting president’s economy so he’s working overtime to convince himself that Carville was wrong.
Bloomberg details Plouffe’s delusion:
“The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers,” Plouffe said. “People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based on: ‘How do I feel about my own situation? Do I believe the president makes decisions based on me and my family?’”
Plouffe is, of course, 100% correct. If you’re an America-hating minority who belongs to a union and wants to retire early while others support your posh lifestyle, you will definitely feel the president makes decisions based on you and your family. Otherwise, not so much.
We’ve never run a presidential campaign, but off the tops of our heads, Mr. Plouffe, sir, that seems like a bad strategy.
Source: Bloomberg.com
This post was last modified on July 11, 2011
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Of course, the poofle is correct. Most Americans do not view the economy thru the prism created by the can of beans they are eating while living under the interstate, but rather how tingly they feel when they rub their legs together when Obama reads from his teleprompter. Oooops, did I say "most Americans"? I meant "most useless drooling media jackasses." But those are the average Americans, no?
People don't vote based on the umemployment rate?????????????? I bet the millions of unemployed might think differently...I guess Mr. Poofee missed the survey about two thirds of the Americans who think the economy stinks...It appears Mr. Poofee needs to get out more.
“The average American does not view the economy through the prism of GDP or unemployment rates or even monthly jobs numbers,”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!.....
I hope you keep up the good and intelligent work, David Plouffe!
In 2016 I hope IHTM will be just as blunt and honest about the socialist with an elephant pin running for re-election(assuming we're still having them).
I can see the WH and congress going back and forth for a while. The "misery index" of inflation (actual, not the made up one the gov't and press put out) + unemployment (again, actual, not the U3 that always gets revised up) are a pretty good predictor of incumbent sucess. As such, there is no way a developed economy can grow fast enough to get back to "normal" for decades unless some aliens come down to bail us out and outsource their spaceship manufacturing to the U.S.
At the end of the day, none of these douche-bags has the guts to do what's needed. Japan had a "lost decade" Anyone care for a lost century?
That's okay Mr. Editor and Mr. Administrator, let him go ahead and spearhead Oblunder's reelection campaign and by the time he's got that ball rollin' the reality of his blunder will have become catastrophic enough to cast the resident Nose-Picker-In-Chief into the garbage bin of history!