Why the Good Economic Numbers Don’t Matter to Voters

Some Republicans are making the case that the economy is much stronger than the press and the polls make it out to be. Today’s column goes into what they get right — and why voters don’t seem to care.

One theme of recent political commentary has been that this campaign season bears a lot of resemblance to the one 20 years ago. I go into that too, writing that in 2006 Republicans

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Some Republicans are making the case that the economy is much stronger than the press and the polls make it out to be. Today’s column goes into what they get right — and why voters don’t seem to care.

One theme of recent political commentary has been that this campaign season bears a lot of resemblance to the one 20 years ago. I go into that too, writing that in 2006 Republicans