Leighton: The Repubs Overreached
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 11th, 2011 5:46 am by HL
Leighton: The Repubs Overreached
“If election day 2011 tells us anything, it’s not just that overreaching in this political environment is a bad move, but it’s a spectacularly bad one,” writes Kyle Leighton. “The keys to government in the midst of a sharp economic decline have focused Americans tightly on jobs and the economy, which pols purport to know. But it seems that some Republicans thought Americans could take a mixture of partisan politics with messaging about jobs. It seems that thesis failed.”