Despite Decent Economy, Democrats Focus on Race

First, to the extent that the elections are about the state of the economy, the Democrats should do surprisingly well. Here is why. The economy has revived very considerably from the Crash of 2008. That Crash was unequivocally caused by the policy failures of the Bush administration.

The Democrats’ core constituency is the black vote. That means the Democrats have to figure out a way to blame the GOP for the lingering economic problems of the blacks. Truth to tell, there are no anti-black economic policies coming from the GOP. None at all, Ben Stein writes in The American Spectator.

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