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Owning The Economy

by Josh Marshall
07.14.09 | 7:29 am

Mark Blumenthal has a good write up on the recent small but clear downward trend in President Obama’s approval ratings. The chief culprit: a recent spate of bad economic news. For better or worse, six months in, President Obama is starting to ‘own’ the bad economy.

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