According to Politico…

President Barack Obama and his party may face an “impossible headwind in November” unless it shifts to a more forward-looking economic message aimed squarely at the middle class, three Democratic strategists warn in a memo out this week.

Pollsters Stan Greenberg and Erica Seifert, of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, and Democratic strategist James Carville write in a research document for Democracy Corps that their party’s current frame for the 2012 race is not effective. Based on focus groups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the strategists argue that voters are simply not convinced that the economy is on the move and it’s a mistake to try and tell them otherwise.

This is funny for several reasons.  No, it’s hilarious.  And pathetic.  And disgusting.  And a host of other things not worth listing.  For one thing, remember this book?  Written by James Carville, who said the Democrat party would “rule” for 40 years.  Actually, this may be true, but they won’t be in the majority.  They’ll just find a way to rule anyway, they’re Democrats.  Republicans got trounced for two election cycles, which meant people had finally learned what was good for them and voted the proper way.

Until the next cycle, after people had had two years of BHO and Democrat party majorities in both houses.  That’s typically how it happens, people vote for “change” without understanding what the change will be, and when they get it, they freak and vote them out again.  It happened in 1994 and 2010, and it will happen again a generation in the future.  Carville didn’t factor in how the Democrat party gets carried away every time they’re in charge.

It’s pathetic and disgusting because they think the problem is in the message.  If they just spin it another way, people will once again be hoodwinked and vote the proper way.  It’s not the message, it’s the policy or lack of a coherent policy.  (I suspect if BHO’s policies were coherent, people would vote his party out in greater numbers, but I digress.)  And the focus groups say the people won’t believe the economy is good and it’s no good telling them so.  Translated, this lie won’t work.

There is some policy recommendations in there, but hardly worth mentioning because they’re nothing new.  The recommendation?  Raise taxes on people making over 200K a year.  So much for a new message.