In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.
The difference between Oprah Winfrey and me is about $200 million.
The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.
The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.
Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his.
While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.
It results from our having such quantities of land to waste as we please. In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant
inefficient crop yields per acre