Karl Rove: The Blame-Bush Game Plan Won't Work - WSJ.com

Karl Rove: The Blame-Bush Game Plan Won't Work - WSJ.com:

To save themselves in the midterm elections, Democrats are counting on selling two themes: The state of the economy is all George W. Bush's fault, and Republican policies will take us backwards. President Obama relished going to Texas this week to blame his predecessor for the current bad economy.

Nice try, but it won't work. Don't take my word. This is what Mr. Obama's pollster, Joel Beneson, has found. The Benenson Strategy Group wasn't exactly quite this blunt in its report for the 'Third Way,' a centrist Democratic organization. But its data was."