Friday, October 08, 2010

The Blame Vote

How Do Democrats Make a Final Economic Pitch? - NYTimes.com:

'"Mr. Plouffe repeated what Mr. Obama has said repeatedly — that the recovery is moving too slowly for anyone’s comfort. But he said that in the final weeks of the election, Democratic candidates should quickly pivot to the responsibility that Republicans bear for creating the economic crisis.

“The Republicans here in Washington act as if they were bystanders to this whole thing. It was their policies that were a chief contributor to this,” Mr. Plouffe said. He added that before Mr. Obama came into office, “we were losing 700,000 jobs a month under the same economic policies that the Republicans want to bring back...”'

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