Americans now defer to Republicans over Democrats on the economy – Tom Carper is a total disaster
I know it seems like I’m harping on Tom Carper’s unholy sucki-tude, but when Democratic economic polices LOSE OUT to Republican policies that have done nothing but fail for the past twenty years, you have to realize that Democratic turncoats and traitors to the middle class like Tom Carper are having a pretty big impact.
A new poll has some disturbing news for Democrats: the country defers to Republicans rather than Democrats when it comes to the economy.
That finding is according to a new Economic Media Project study conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research on behalf of the Democratic-leaning Democracy Corps. The research said that, despite Democrats having a 5-point partisan identification advantage over Republicans, more people (43 percent to 38 percent) think Republicans have a better handle on the economy than Democrats. That’s “a 10 point deficit based on the presumptive partisan orientation,” the memo from the study said.
“The public really has pulled back from Democrats on the economy,” the memo said.
The study’s findings went on to say that conservatives don’t dominate the issue but liberals are still trailing them.
“The progressive-liberal economic approach centered on creating full employment, raising in-comes at every level, and public investment stands only at parity with a conservative approach that stresses reductions in the size of government and level spending, cutting taxes, and making entrepreneurship easier,” the memo said. “Conservatives are not dominating this space, but liberals must begin to win these debates in order to have a real impact on policy change.”
Tom Carper is the new Mike Castle for Jason. Excellent.
Raising public awareness about what a fucking disaster Tom Carper is does appear to be my new mission. When I turned my ire on Castle, he was voted out a mere 6 years later. Just sayin’
Hart Research has just the opposite take on this and they do plenty of work for the DNC….which they ignore. Totally agree on Carper.
The middle class wants more of the dog that bit them. We are all Kansas now.
Jason,
Only four years before Carper runs again. More work to do in a tighter window.
Also – I can’t depend on a bunch of Teabags getting the issues 100% backwards and taking him out for all the wrong reasons.
“The middle class wants more of the dog that bit them. We are all Kansas now.”
Pretty much.
“creating full employment, raising in-comes at every level, and public investment”
“reductions in the size of government and level spending, cutting taxes, and making entrepreneurship easier”
These are not antithetical thoughts or desires. That may be one reason why they are at parity. Most people believe (know) that we have a large government and who doesn’t want to have their taxes cut or make entrepreneurship easier, as well as full employment, raising income, public investment (in infrastructure especially, I assume). I fail to see why both even have labels of progressive and conservative.
The devil though, is in the details. What actions are necessary to achieve those objectives? How do progressives (if given the opportunity) intend to achieve full employment, accomplish public investment (in what?).
I don’t actually know and I’m semi-literate and well read (except tweeted essays). What I do know on the conservative side is that they just want to cut taxes period, regardless of the repercussions. I’d be in favor of a tax cut if someone would simply declare capital gains as ordinary income so that Warren Buffet and I pay the same tax rate. So yeah, conservatives use a lot of mumbo, jumbo. But can someone tell me how progressives would achieve full employment?
I agree re the tax cuts. A 50% cut in the corporate tax rate that taxed all corporate revenue (not profits) and thereby abolished all tax shelters would be a huge bonanza for the treasury.
This…. “making entrepreneurship easier” is not an honest or accurate description of the GOP position. “Making it easier for corporations to avoid/ignore all regulations” is closer to the mark.
Socialized day care and health care would make entrepreneurship easier.
SO I’m a single parent working for min wage and day care is more than 1/3 of my take home pay. What do I do