economic policy

Matt C has crunched the latest polling and shows the averages reveal an emerging Electoral College landslide for Obama:

John McCain, by elevating Sarah Palin onto the national political stage before she was ready, may have made an already weak conservative bench that much weaker:

I caught MSNBC's David Gregory last night promoting John McCain as an effective alternative to the Bush economic policy in the wake of yesterday's market crash essentially because Sarah Palin holds down the social conservatives for him while he can play up his ethics reform background and promote tighter regulations against the broad latitude of the Bush Administration.

Are Americans complete and utter morons? The McCain campaign is hoping the answer is "yes" as they are making a remark specifically about John McCain into a sexist attack on Sarah Palin.

VP candidate Sarah Palin makes her first gaffe, and she's running silent and dark away from the harsh light of media re-directs:

While some plugged-in, conventional Democrats don't believe that wealth should be made an issue in elections, I do.

"On the whole, Republicans are either the victims of incredibly bad luck, or lousy economic policy. But either way, they are not the Party of growth. Macro-economic growth seems to be faster when Democrats are in office."

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Ben Stein and I actually agree on something:

The sad truth of the last two two-term Republican presidents is that their economic premise, the key part of their economic game plan, simply has not done what it’s supposed t

From Kavon Nikrad:

Recent reports that GOP presidential nominee John McCain is vetting Congressman Eric Cantor (VA-07) for the vice-presidential slot has prompted inquiries from the Club for Growth PAC about Rep. Cantor’s record on economic issues.