Dems in 2016 will replay de Blasio’s “inequality” theme — the GOP should stress income mobility.
New York City: If a campaign theme can make it there, it can it make it anywhere — or at least in the 2016 U.S. presidential election? Democrat Bill de Blasio won the Big Apple’s mayoralty last week in a historic landslide. His winning campaign was built around a rich vs. poor, “two cities” storyline. In his election-night victory speech, de Blasio described income inequality as “that feeling of a few doing very well, while so many slip further behind” and identified it as “the defining challenge of our time.”
Team Obama hung Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment around the Republican candidate’s neck, but the president didn’t go nearly as far as de Blasio did this year in making inequality his campaign’s raison d’être. Don’t be surprised, however, if a former U.S. senator from New York grabs the inequality baton from the incoming Gotham boss if she makes a White House run. A recent Timemagazine analysis highlighted income inequality as one of six potential presidential campaign themes that “Hillary is test driving.” Reporter Zeke Miller noted that in a recent speech at Yale Law School, Clinton said the nation must “reverse this tide of inequality that is eating away at the social fabric of our country.”
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Yes the rich always like to use inequality while they stuff the cash into their pockets. How about telling us she will work for no pay and give all her money away to the poor.
ReplyDeleteYou have just got to laugh at how these guys constantly engage in the "pot calling the kettle black" game. It's Dems playing the rich vs poor card, yet he clearly highlighted a prime instance of Romney playing that same card. Also funny is the way that he uses the Scott Winship quote to support his story here, but I bet he'll be sure to leave out the "...lower taxes, and more federal and employer benefits" [and so will you all] during later stories touting the conservative platform.
ReplyDeleteThere will be no 2016 election. Obama will have declared martial law long before that date and secured the country with his private SS troops that are being trained all over the US.
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