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You might credit the president for the economy surpassing national security as the main issue on voters' minds. A lot of people believe the president (whether or not he deserves it) is responsible (to some extent) for the economy.
Has he made us safer? Mabye, mabye not. Nobody doubts that another 9/11 could happen tomorrow, and there might not be anything we could have done to prevent it. Fighting terrorism is hard because there's very little room for error.
Terror attacks on the scale of 9/11 don't happen that often. The last one is fading in our memories, and we're looking at issues of security much closer to home. Economic security is important to voters in this election. Something like 2-3 million jobs have been lost.
Is the emergence of this issue the result of a well executed war on terror? Probably not. Is it the natural result of an economy that actually is bad? I sure think so.
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