Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Jobs Will Rule November Election Predicts Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin in New Geography reports:
The question now is whether the Democrats are squandering their advantage. After almost 15 months in office, Democratic dogmatism--a mixture of faith in all forms of federal spending, "green jobs" and ever more regulation--has not exactly turbo-charged the economy. As a result, middle-class voters--those making $50,000 to $75,000 annually, have been slipping from the Democrats, according to a recent Wall Street Journal poll. These are precisely the voters who also put Scott Brown into the Senate.