Is it no longer 'the economy, stupid'?

Cultural issues seem to have superseded pocketbook concerns in this wild election

Bill Clinton on the campaign trail in 1992.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

"It's the economy, stupid."

This bit of down-home political wisdom was at the heart of Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential campaign. And indeed, jobs, income, and living costs are awfully important to voters, if not paramount. Many election forecasting models center on economic variables.

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James Pethokoukis

James Pethokoukis is the DeWitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute where he runs the AEIdeas blog. He has also written for The New York Times, National Review, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, and other places.