What Will Be the 2008 Game Changer?
2012-03-13 - by
You can be certain of one thing about the 2012 election: The thing that will decide it hasn’t happened yet.
At this point in 2008, nobody had heard of Sarah Palin. And nobody expected the economy to nearly collapse in six months.
The possibilities are endless: war with Iran? Another disaster in Afghanistan? A hurricane? $5 gas? A brokered Republican convention that nominates Jeb Bush? The Supreme Court’s health care decision?
This year’s volatility is dramatized by today’s New York Times/CBS poll. At a time when most Democrats were starting to feel good – thanks to an uptick in jobs, a down-and-dirty war over women and self-destruction in the Republican presidential race – the poll found that President Obama’s approval rating fell from 50 percent to 41 percent in recent weeks.
The likely culprit: gas prices. While us political people were caught up in the drama over Rush Limbaugh and the Republican primaries, real people are caught up in the daily struggle to make ends meet.
What Will Be the 2008 Game Changer?
2012-03-13/
You can be certain of one thing about the 2012 election: The thing that will decide it hasn’t happened yet.
At this point in 2008, nobody had heard of Sarah Palin. And nobody expected the economy to nearly collapse in six months.
The possibilities are endless: war with Iran? Another disaster in Afghanistan? A hurricane? $5 gas? A brokered Republican convention that nominates Jeb Bush? The Supreme Court’s health care decision?
This year’s volatility is dramatized by today’s New York Times/CBS poll. At a time when most Democrats were starting to feel good – thanks to an uptick in jobs, a down-and-dirty war over women and self-destruction in the Republican presidential race – the poll found that President Obama’s approval rating fell from 50 percent to 41 percent in recent weeks.
The likely culprit: gas prices. While us political people were caught up in the drama over Rush Limbaugh and the Republican primaries, real people are caught up in the daily struggle to make ends meet.