Barone, 11/1/2010

Obama's Economists Missed What Voters Plainly Saw - Michael Barone - Townhall Conservative

Heading into what appears to be a disastrous midterm election, the Obama Democrats profess to be puzzled. The president's record, they insist, is moderate, accommodating -- if anything, overcautious. So why do most American voters seem to be angrily rejecting it?

That's one way of looking at it. Another way is to say that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have increased government's share of gross domestic product from 21 percent, where it's hovered for the last several decades, to about 25 percent and have put the national debt on a trajectory to increase from 40 to 90 percent of GDP.

Voters have noticed -- and don't like it.  MB

 I don't think American voters will ever be fooled like they were in 2008.  They are too smart and savvy enough to recognize that if something or someone looks too good to be true, it or they are playing a game...

The line from the Obama camp is that voters are confused, ignorant, misled or even racist; they can't be rejecting the president's party on the merits. MB

How dare they?

I don't believe this theory for a second, but I believe the arrogant atitude. Approximately 70% of the folks who wrote to their Congressperson, Senators and the White House said no to ObamaCare. We are a representative republic.  They should have listened, but said "we know better what you need".  Truly an example of arrogance.