7/09/2004 08:05:46 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

The Democratic strategy, per its two standard bearers, is nicely summed up by Daniel Henninger

For many Democrats, the vision of a city sliding down a hill is the continuing reality of America. In the version being tried for this election, economic growth is possible in a globalized world only if the middle class gets shafted. "We're moving backwards"--John Kerry, April 2004.

But the most recent Washington Post-ABC poll finds 64% of Americans optimistic about the economy's next 12 months, and more than half still optimistic about Iraq. Somebody here is on the wrong page. The Kerry-Edwards ethos of never-ending urgency and impending disaster is a weirdly European kind of politics, rooted more in the sadness of inevitable social tragedy than the largely uncontested American idea of individual possibility.

The most important part of Henninger's article is the second paragraph above - the Democratics are out of touch.

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