Struggling Economy Will Take Center Stage In November Say Experts

Sarah Mamula - Talk Radio News Service

Former Commerce Undersecretary for Economic Affairs Robert Shapiro expressed confidence Thursday that the Democratic Party will continue to hold the majority in Congress after the midterm elections.

According to the NDN, a progressive think tank and advocacy organization, the focus for the midterm elections in November is the struggling economy. President of NDN Simon Rosenberg said issues such as the clean energy and comprehensive immigration reform will creep just below the public’s radar.

Rosenberg believes that if the GOP were to gain seats in Congress, Republicans would need to adjust their current economic policy of “do nothing” and come up with alternatives.

“I don’t think this set of leaders, Boehner and McConnell, have the intellectual capacity [for] a real economic strategy because they have utterly failed to do so in the entire time they’ve been in office,” Rosenberg said.

Polls indicated that people voted for Obama and Democrats in 2008 due to the policies he planned to implement to revive the economy, but Shapiro said that economic progress made by the government will aid Democrats come September.

“The economy is certainly in much better shape than when the president took office,” said Shapiro.