Legal Commentary

Politics Is Stupid, Cont'd

By Big Tent Democrat

Jed Lewison asks a simple question:

[H]ow [did] the GOP managed to capture 30% of the votes of the 37% of people who listed their top priority as increasing spending to create jobs.

Simple answer - politics is stupid. Then again, President Obama and the Democratic Congress were not promising to increase spending to create jobs. The President himself said it was time for the government to tighten its belt. So the stupidity was all around us.

Perhaps someone might figure this out by now, but people vote based on how they are doing, especially economically. The Democrats did not deliver adequate results regarding the economy. That's why they lost. As Atrios wrote:

The policy failure was about the economy and the foreclosure crisis, and the politics was the failure to recognize how deeply this mattered. No matter what people say in polls, nobody cares about the deficit or "spending," they care about whether they have any money. [. . .] I don't know how politicians lacked the self-preservation skills to recognize that if they failed to deliver on the economy they would fail, but that's what happened.

Indeed. Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).