Jim Huston |
The 2010 midterm elections are turning out to be one of the most interesting election cycles in recent memory. The primary concern for the majority of Americans is jobs , jobs, jobs. To quote James Carville, Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign strategist, “It’s the economy, stupid!” Foreign policy and the war in Afghanistan trail significantly behind in importance in the mind of the electorate. Add to this the recent unemployment figures showing that the number of Americans out of work is not improving. Vice President Joe Biden’s predicted “summer of the recovery” is quickly turning into the reality of the “fall of the continued fall.” If this is a recovery, it makes a patient with a flat-line pulse rate in an intensive care unit look healthy enough to enter a bout in a cage fighting championship match! My predictions for 2011. If volatility and uncertainty are the order of the day, as I think that they are, they are being challenged by unprecedented involvement and engagement by the electorate. The Tea Party movement is simply the resulting embodiment and symbol of all of the pent-up frustrations. Here are my best, worst and most probable case scenario predictions for 2011: Best-Case Scenario. Conservatives in the House of Representatives enact some changes.
JIM HUSTON runs J.R. Huston Consulting, a green industry consulting firm. See www.jrhuston.biz; mail jhuston@giemedia.com. |
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