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MICHAEL BARONE: Obama?s economists missed what voters plainly saw. Heading into what appears to ?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL BARONE: Obama’s economists missed what voters plainly saw.

Heading into what appears to be a disastrous midterm election, the Obama Democrats profess to be puzzled. The president’s record, they insist, is moderate, accommodating, if anything overcautious. So why do most American voters seem to be angrily rejecting it?

That’s one way of looking at it. Another way is to say that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have increased government’s share of gross domestic product from 21 percent, where it’s hovered for the last several decades, to about 25 percent and have put the national debt on a trajectory to increase from 40 percent to 90 percent of GDP.

Voters have noticed — and don’t like it.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on November 01, 2010 (boomark / email).