Nov 6th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
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The one-two punch of Tuesday’s elections and Friday’s unemployment numbers has reframed the policy debate in Washington. To quote Democratic campaign guru James Carville: “It’s the economy, stupid.” That’s as true now as it was in 1992, when he first said it.
Voters in both the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races Tuesday declared the economy and jobs their No. 1 issue, trumping local concerns. The Republicans won both elections. And on Friday, when the news broke that national unemployment had crossed the psychologically painful barrier of 10 percent for the first time since 1983, the Obama administration sent its top economic advisers – and President Obama himself – to the airwaves to reassure the public that they were on top of the situation.
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