Real issues getting worse for Democrats

Ed Rogers:

If you looked at today’s headlines and had to advise Republicans on the 2014 midterm elections, you might give them the wrong idea. The anti-Republican media is working overtime to convince voters that the Republicans are wounded and in disarray. They are contorting themselves to keep the story about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) in the news and no doubt will linger over every detail of the personal downfall of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife. Meanwhile, the media flatter the pointless gubernatorial campaign of Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat. But if you look at the facts — and ignore the media hype — you will see the real drivers of votes in November will be the economy and Obamacare. Even as the liberal media try to quietly usher these twin embarrassments off the front pages, recent developments can’t be encouraging to Democrats — starting with today’s Quinnipiac poll, which shows that 56 percent of Americans disapprove of how President Obama is handling the economy and only 36 percent approve of how he is handling Obamacare.

We take fleeting comfort in the occasional economic indicator that isn’t awful, but the reality is that growth is stagnant, at best, with gross domestic product growth likely to remain between only 2 percent and 2.5 percent. And more than 23 million American households – 20 percent – rely on food stamps. The Washington Examiner published part of a memo by Wall Street adviser David John Marotta, who reminds us that, “officially reported unemployment numbers decrease when enough time passes to discourage the unemployed from looking for work.” And “discouraged” seems to describe how many Americans feel. Marotta also calculated that the misery index — today’s true unemployment rate plus the true inflation figure — is 14.7 percent, the worst in 40 years.
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Obamacare remains a slow moving disaster despite some media attempts to make it appear as thous resistance to it is futile.  The fact is that it is bad policy and resisting bad policy is good politics.  This time it looks like the media bias is not working and that is good for America.