If Democratic strategists Jimmy Carville and Stan “The Man” Greenberg are right, Gov. Rick Snyder may be in trouble.
Mr. Snyder during his “I’m running again” re-election kick-off tour labeled himself the Comeback Governor and his domain the Comeback State.
The two Democrats suggest that any mention of the term “recovery,” which is what the governor’s comeback term implies, should be buried faster than a dead fish.
Now their research is based on national politics and what Democrats say are President Obama’s “successful” economic policies. But if the recovery message is not working nation-wide, you might figure it is not playing well in Michigan.
In fact some internal state Democratic research suggests it’s not.
When you ask Michigan folks is the economy doing better, their overall answer is yes. But if you do the follow-up question about are YOU doing better, you get a different response, as in “no.”
Turns out the term "recovery," according to the national research, “is missing how much trouble people are in.”
Apparently happy days are not here again even though the governor has seen the state’s jobless rate make a nice tumble downward. That is why the governor is careful to say we are not totally out of the woods yet.
In reality the income gap between the haves and the have nots has expanded, which may be why the minimum wage issue is playing so well around here: 65% support.
Mr. Carville and Mr. Greenberg conclude that just uttering there is a recovery is not helping the Democrats, and it sends the message that the politician uttering it doesn't "understand the problems I face.”
The Snyder re-election team is not filled with dummies and apparently they think the comeback theme will worko
But if the theory outlined in the National Journal from Mr. C. and Mr. G. is right, the governor may be wrong.
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