Howard Dean: Dems Losing White Men Because ‘Economy Has Not Gotten Better’

After months of telling voters the economy is improving, Howard Dean finally admitted the Obama administration has not presided over the economic recovery that it claims.

NBC’s Chuck Todd asked the former DNC chairman about the gender and race gap in Tuesday’s election, with only 1 in 3 white men breaking for the Democratic party. Dean explained that his party has lost sight of “lunch-bucket issues.”

“The erosion among white men has mostly to do with the fact that the economy has not gotten better,” he said. “These folks have been feeling under big-time stress. And we have got to have a message that has to do with basic economics. It helps us all across the board, but particularly with white men.”