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What Went Down In The Second GOP Debate
Reagan Led Carter Through Much Of The 1980 Campaign
Scott Walker just said that Ronald Reagan trailed just before the 1980 election. That’s not true. As this Monkey Cage blog post details, Reagan led consistently over Jimmy Carter in an aggregate of polls from June 1980 through the election.
Finally, Someone Talks About The Economy
We’re down to the final minutes of the debate, and finally someone is talking about the economy. Jeb Bush correctly notes that poverty is up under Obama and incomes and workforce participation are down. Whether his policies will reverse those trends is another question. Bush has pledged to deliver 4 percent economic growth, something most experts believe will be difficult at a time when baby boomers are retiring. Still, it’s good to hear someone talking about serious economic problems in this debate — even if it’s likely come long after most people have tuned out.
Huckabee asked: “Why doesn’t this country focus on cures rather than treatment?” Nixon declared a war on cancer in 1971. This year the National Institutes of Health will spend $5.4 billion on cancer research. We still have no cure.