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Or a Program That Was Actually Going to Work

Posted By David Boaz On August 25, 2010 @ 9:05 pm In Government and Politics,Tax and Budget Policy | Comments Disabled

John Judis writes ^[1] in the New Republic that Obama hasn’t been as successful at selling his economic program as Reagan was:

On the eve of the [1982] election, with the unemployment rate at a postwar high, a New York Times/CBS News poll found that 60 percent of likely voters thought Reagan’s economic program would eventually help the country. That’s a sign of a successful political operation.

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