Along with all the bombast regarding personal attacks on Mitt Romney, one should fully expect Obama to ratchet up yet another aspect of his agenda between now and the end of September and, if Romney and his staff are smart, they will take today’s news and pounce on it like they have the “You didn’t build that” stance Obama has taken lately.
This news has been lost among the high profile Aurora shooting and the NCAA response to the Sandusky conviction at Penn State.
The Poverty Rate
The official numbers will not be released until just weeks before the November elections, probably in mid to late September but the predictions are, to say the least, dire.
Remember when Reagan asked so famously, “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?”
Well, the question Romney should be posing from now until the election is, “Are you better off now than you were 47 years ago?”
The latest census report will be made public in September and will show a rise in the poverty rate of the nation from 15.1% to as high as 15.7% but, know this…
