Jay Cost, who joins THE WEEKLY STANDARD today, leaves RealClearPolitics with a bang. In an excellent piece, he shows that the “conventional wisdom that the decline of the Democrats has mostly to do with the economy and little – if anything – to do with health care” is wrong.
As Jay writes, “The Democrats’ control of the House did not become tenuous recently….there has been a real danger of losing the House for some time, a danger that predates “Recovery Summer” and goes back to the health care debate….The real questions are whether the health care bill moved voters away from the Democrats, and whether those voters have since moved back now that the debate is over. The answers are yes – the debate moved voters away from the Democrats; and no – the voters have not come back.”
