I think when things get tough, people want to hear more concrete examples of what is going to be done. Things are very tough on the domestic front right now and they apparently were not hearing enough meat and potatoes. I saw that Axelrod mentioned that the speech turned into a laundry list (which frankly these particular speeches often do) and I don't think people are looking for that right now.Now see that's interesting. As I've related before, maybe the far left wingnuts aren't actually the far left and account for more of the party than we give credit. If you were a moderate Dem I don't know how you don't give a very positive rating to the speech. I mean the guy isn't going to lay out step by step his plan to remedy all our ills. It's a pep rally with a theme
Gas is almost $3.60 a gallon in Indiana, a pound of the cheap ground beef is going for like 4.99 a pound if you don't find it on sale, depending on the day you show up at the store certain items are becoming more scarce on top of the higher price. I saw him mention the federal voter rights bill again in the last part I saw. Next to nobody cares about that. I don't believe that he can really do much to help inflation now, but he should have been hammering on bread and instead it sounds like he wandered into circuses territory too much.