Impeach Nancy Pelosi If you are a Republican or someone looking for a change in Washington, things are looking really good heading into 2014. As Charlie Cook writes in a column entitled,Why Democrats Have Reason to Fear, “midterm elections are, more often than not, referenda on the White House occupant. While the president’s name is not on the ballot, voters usually register their approval or disapproval of the administration through their votes for Congress. Obama’s job-approval ratings are currently in the low- to mid-40s, roughly where George W. Bush’s were at this point in his second term (his later dropped as low as 31 percent). Obama’s disapproval ratings are running just above his approval ratings—never a good sign… The other relevant political axiom to keep in mind is that Americans often vote their pocketbooks, based on their perceptions of how the national economy is doing, how they are doing, and whether they are seeing the economy through a hopeful or a pessimistic lens… Growth is not at the pace that you would want coming out of the longest, deepest, and most diffuse economic downturn since the Great Depression.”
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 09:29:11 +0000
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