VAL 2010: USA går till val den 2 november. Alla förväntar sig att demokraterna kommer att förlora stort mot republikanerna. Mycket beroende på missnöjet med president Barack Obama.
The Economist har tittat på Obamas problem.
In September of this year Gallup published a poll in which it listed five of the administration’s main achievements and asked respondents whether they approved of them. A majority (61% to 37%) approved of one: the reform of financial regulation passed this summer. Every one of the other four got a thumbs-down: the rescue of the financial system (61% to 37%), the stimulus package (52% to 43%), the bail-out of the car companies (56% to 43%) and health reform (56% to 39%). […]
On the campaign in recent weeks he has tried to revive the electricity he generated in his presidential campaign, but the man who inspired voters in 2008 now strikes many as professorial and aloof. His stump speech offers a simple two-part explanation of what has gone wrong. Mr Bush left behind the worst economic mess since the Great Depression, and an irresponsible Republican Party has not just refused to help the new man clean up the mess but has done everything possible to obstruct his efforts. […]
Needless to say, the Republicans challenge this version of events. True, every Republican in the House voted against stimulus, but they say that was because although they wanted oh so much to help, a principled opposition could not rubber-stamp the “pork-laden” bill drafted by the Democrats. Far from revealing them as the party of no, says Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House, the Republicans’ unanimous rejection showed that they were the “adults in the room at a reckless liberal blowout on the taxpayers’ dime.”
Maybe. But even if Mr Obama is right that the Republicans are just the undeserving beneficiaries of the general discontent, they saw sooner than he did the welling public rage at the spectacle of bankers and borrowers receiving bail-outs while the virtuous paid the bills. […]
In contrast, many of the progressive voters who were his most enthusiastic supporters in 2008 are disappointed by Mr Obama’s caution in office. They expected so much more: not just a bolder version of health reform but also immigration reform, action on global warming, a faster exit from Afghanistan, the advancement of gay rights and the closure of Guantánamo.
the Campaign Dossier 
Kommentera