Every Hand’s a Winner 12-17-2010
“If they’re going to spend the next year and a half talking about what their priorities are [on taxes] and how to fix the economy, maybe in two years we’ll have a different outcome,” contends David DiMartino, a longtime Democratic strategist. The message “needs to be coordinated, it needs to be concise, it needs to be repetitive, so that when the issue comes around again in two years, people will understand what the choices are.” Polls suggest that voters’ default position “mirrors Obama’s,” he says. Most polls show that less than half of Americans want to extend the cuts for the wealthy if the middle-class tax cuts are preserved. So, the president could enter the message battle with the advantage.
