Barone: Voters want growth, not income redistribution

Washington Examiner

quotes:

• He cites a recent Gallup poll showing that while 82 percent of Americans think it's extremely or very important to "grow and expand the economy
• only 46 percent say it's important to "reduce the income and wealth gap between the rich and the poor" 
• Class warfare politics, as I have noted, hasn't produced a Democratic presidential victory in a long, long time
• Redistribution edges toward a zero-sum game.
• Lesson: If you want redistribution, you better first produce growth. Which the Obama Democrats' policies have failed to do.

Comment:  I see Obama's Kansas speech as a effort to shore up his base.  But it leaves him open to an attack for being an anti-growth, redistributionist.  It would be a fair attack and he would have no one to blame for it but himself.