It is not that we have not seen results of tax cuts to the corporations and plutocrats as the deficits increased and middle class stay stagnant. We have lived this and we are living with the results of said policy. The experiment is over. Democrats lose if they allow Republicans to redefine their failure as the failure of liberal policies we know work as it has worked in the past.
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WASHINGTON — Six months after Republicans alarmed Democrats with a midterm election wave, President Barack Obama has shaken off the jitters and found his political footing despite sluggish economic growth and deep public anxiety about the direction of the country. The White House now displays an air of confidence, bolstered in part by achievements such as the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. commandos and the financial success of an auto industry that Obama bailed out over the objections of many.
Obama is also benefiting from the absence of negatives. The economy, while lethargic, is growing. The private sector is creating jobs. Natural disasters, while deadly and plentiful, have not developed into governmental crises. Skyrocketing gas prices, which fed the public’s economic fears, are now subsiding. And the GOP’s signature budget plan, ambitious in its spending reductions, has lost its luster with the public.
"It is likely he will be re-elected, in my opinion," veteran Republican pollster Wes Anderson says.
What’s more, the president appears to be enjoying the still lingering but more intangible effects of his election in 2008, a watershed for the nation. Polls show Obama with strong favorability and likability ratings even as he faces ambivalence over his handling of the presidency.
Former New Hampshire Republican Party chairman Fergus Cullen said the symbolic power of Obama’s election as the first black president carries enormous good will that will be difficult for Republicans to overcome.
"Centrist voters and the ones who decide elections are still fundamentally rooting for the guy," Cullen said. "People who don’t view politics in ideological terms give him the benefit of the doubt, and that is an incredible political asset to have."
Obama’s inner circle, always wary of sounding too self-assured, is not hiding its optimism.
"I would rather be us than them," said one of the president’s top political advisers, David Axelrod.
Barack Obama Finds Solid Ground, High Approval Ratings, White House Confident About Reelection