Thursday, May 31, 2012

Why All Eyes Should Be on the Wisconsin Battlefield

Heather Digby Parton wrote in Mother Jones Why All Eyes Should Be on the Wisconsin Battlefield.

Among a few points this stuck out at me:

"Even though Walker is being recalled mostly because of a fight with workers and the state is dead-last in job creation, 50% of the voters think he'll be better at job creation than the other guy? Nobody in the country has done worse! This strikes me as yet another success of conservative talking points. I think many people have simply absorbed the oft-repeated notion that Republicans are the advocates for 'job-creators' with their low taxes and deregulation and even in the face of clear evidence otherwise they can't really see how anything else would work. And you can't really blame them all that much. Nobody's really telling them another story, at least not one that would make them think that Democrats would be better advocates for the 'job creators.' So they default to the conventional wisdom or plain old tribalism."

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