From Hope to Hopelessness: Obama’s Economy Has 88 Million “Not In Labor Force”

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  April 7th at 08:30 AM  | 

It was less than a year ago that Barack Obama’s senior adviser, David Plouffe said: After 2½ years in office, President Obama now “owns” the economy as an issue, according to top adviser David Plouffe, who added he was confident that voters understand that recovering from a devastating recession Mr. Obama inherited takes time. “Of course he does,” Mr. Plouffe told NBC’s “Today” show host Matt | Read More »

Davy Plouffe tries to manage expectations.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 8th at 10:00 PM  | 

Plouffe took some time away from his current job – which is to say, rewriting the Democratic party’s rules so as to eliminate any chance of a successful primary challenge to the President in 2012 – to graciously define the Republican party’s November victory conditions for it. Apparently, according to Davy if we’re not “winning back the House, winning back the Senate and winning every | Read More »

Quietly revising the 2012 Democratic nomination process.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 17th at 01:00 PM  | 

Or, Why Barack Obama Will Win the 2012 Democratic Nomination. A good number of people – on both sides of the spectrum – are allowing themselves to speculate on the previously-unthinkable scenario that possibly, just possibly, the President might be successfully challenged in the primaries in 2012.  This is America, right?  People come out of nowhere to win elections all the time.  Why, look at | Read More »