Not even Obama can buy the votes of over half the country.
Shaken by the polls, and unable to tout his accomplishments in office, the president has instead targeted giveaways to particular constituencies of the Democratic party. We’ve gone from soaring to squalid. Women got free contraceptives and the invitation to believe that the Republicans had launched another war of choice — against women. College students got more subsidies for their loans. Gays got support for same-sex marriage. And Hispanics got the dubiously legal decision to forgo deportations for certain illegal immigrants. Blacks and Jews haven’t been bribed yet, but perhaps that’s what comes of voting too reliably Democratic. (Supporters of Israel have long since been disappointed in this White House.)
Still, not even Barack Obama can successfully buy the votes of 50 percent plus one of the American people. His argument to win over the unpurchased thus goes as follows: “Sure the economy is worse than it could be. But if you vote Republican, you will be endorsing the very policies that brought on the recession and caused our current troubles.” The policies President Obama most often cites as having caused the “mess” we’re in are (1) the Bush tax cuts, and (2) “letting Wall Street write its own rules.”>>>
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