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Talking Heads Talk Economy

Pocketbook issues seem likely to trump racism for voters

By Gabriel Winant, Newser User

Posted Oct 12, 2008 2:07 PM CDT

(Newser) – With little time remaining until Election Day, the Sunday talk shows focused on the ongoing economic turmoil and the racial issues roiling the presidential campaigns. Politico spins the dial:

On This Week, surrogates from both parties endorsed the Treasury’s capital-injection plan for banks. But guests split over an economic stimulus, with Republican Roy Blunt opposing what he called the Democrats’ “public works plan.”

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and ex-White House budget chief Rob Portman echoed the social spending vs. belt-tightening debate on Meet the Press.
On Fox News Sunday, the presidential campaign managers went at it over the race card. Rick Davis defended John McCain against Georgia Rep. John Lewis' comparison to George Wallace, and David Axelrod argued that the McCain campaign's "ads are continuing to drive this."

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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., center, talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 29, 2008, following the failed House vote on the financial... (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson appears on "Meet the Press'" with Tom Brokaw Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, at the NBC studios in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong) (AP Photo/Meet The Press, Alex Wong)

In this photo provided by CBS, House Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri appears on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington, Sunday, Oct 5, 2008. (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper) (AP Photo/CBS Face the Nation, Karin Cooper)

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I certainly will work on a stimulus package that makes sense. But let's not use the stimulus package as an excuse to do what Democrats have wanted to do from Day One of this Congress, which is a huge public works plan. - Roy Blunt, House Republican Whip

If you’re drowning and you’re in the middle of a river, and you see a guy on the riverbank and he has a coil of rope, you don’t care whether he’s black, white, green, purple. All you care about whether he has a strong enough arm. - Ed Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania

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