SALENA ZITO: It’s The Economy, Mr. President. “That may not be entirely fair. Yet it is at the root of why the president hasn’t moved forward in Pennsylvania polls for years. . . . Pennsylvania voters are more a combination of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian ideals and values than they are Democrats or Republicans. And that’s why Barack Obama is tied in the Keystone State with Republican Mitt Romney. The national media narrative is that things look better for Obama. Yet drive across the state and talk to Jeffersonian and Jacksonian voters who supported him in 2008 and you’ll find today’s environment is nothing short of toxic for Democrats, especially Obama.”
They know it’s the economy. That’s why they’d rather have everyone talking about hoodies and birth control.