Tax cut

Have Obama and Biden Overinvested In The Middle Class Tax Argument?

Too Clever By A Half

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 15th, 2012 at 04:02 PM  |  31

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Every campaign involves strategic choices about where to attack your opponent. One of the major points of attack leveled by the Obama-Biden campaign against Mitt Romney is the Democrats’ claim that the Romney-Ryan tax plan would raise taxes on the middle class. There is evidence that this attack has done a good deal of damage to Romney, but it is beginning to look as if it is now blowing up in the Democrats’ face at just the wrong time. There’s a lesson there – similar to the lesson of the Democrats’ 2004 obsession with George W. Bush’s national guard service – about overplaying your hand in national elections.