It's the economy, stupid
When we think of Bush the father did not usually have a very good picture of it, mainly because of its destructive reproductive capacity, but shortly before the 1992 election, Bush was considered unbeatable by most political analysts, mainly because of its successes in politics outside, as the end of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War, then his popularity had reached 90% acceptance, a historical record.
In these circumstances, James Carville, strategist for the campaign of Bill Clinton, noted that it should focus more on issues related to the daily lives of citizens and their most immediate needs. And in order to keep the campaign focused on a message, Carville stuck a poster in the central office with three letters:
- Change vs. more of the same
- The economy, stupid
- Do not forget the health system
Although the cartel was only a reminder of, "It's the economy, stupid" became a kind of unofficial slogan of the campaign of Clinton, who was critical to alter the balance of power and defeat Bush, something unthinkable earlier.
In the 1992 elections in the United States, compared with tax cuts and spending proposals by Bush, Clinton spoke of a new fiscal policy to punish the highest incomes and an improvement in those aspects of society that, his opinion, made a big country (education, health, ...)
In Spain it seems that in the campaign, the economy was not a defining issue in the U.S. but it may be. Undoubtedly, we will have to be very attentive to the McCain-Obama fight because as we have seen, its crises affect us more than what is desirable. Will the economy which force the change?
Written by Carlos Lopez on June 26, 2008 with 254 comments
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