Greg Sargent has often pointed out that Romney's campaign's view of theory of this race has been crudely deterministic. Romney seems to think that he can just point to the unemployment rate, and the President and his case rests.
In many ways this election season ought to make us feel better about the intelligence of the American people-they are not nearly as simple-minded as the Romney team had banked on. Even now, Americans remember who the real Herbert Hoover is:
"More than half of voters nationwide attribute the country's current economic problems to former President George W. Bush and Republicans as opposed to President Barack Obama and the Democrats, a new poll released Thursday shows."
"The latest release from CNN shows that 54 percent of likely voters think Bush and his Republican colleagues are more to blame for the still-sluggish national economy, compared with 38 percent who blame Obama and the Democrats."
"It should be noted that this is not a new trend. CNN has found that at least 50 percent of Americans pin the lion's share of the blame for nation's economic woes on Bush and the GOP dating back to September of 2010. "
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-54-percent-blame-bush-gop-for-economic
Talk about a misunderstanding of the race. Yet the Romney team has tried to accuse the President of being Jimmy Carter. This just shows you how delusional he is. Romney is simply a return to the failed policies of George W. Bush.
And George W. Bush is the real Herbert Hoover. Try as much as they can to obscure this and rewrite history it is failing. Note that Americans still believed this even in 2010 during the Tea Party "shellacking."
So they greatly overestimated their mandate.
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