Tuesday's Republican convention was supposed to be about jobs. Guess what was barely mentioned?
The theme of Tuesday night's Republican National Convention was "Make America Work Again," but it might have more accurately been dubbed "Work to Make America Hate Hillary Clinton." According to a tally from FiveThirtyEight, speakers on Tuesday said "Hillary" 87 times, "Clinton" 70 times, and "jobs" just 24 times. "Donald" was said 59 times, as was "Trump" — and two of Trump's children were among the featured speakers. "Work" fared better than jobs, with 37 mentions, and "business" tied with "government" at 25 nods.
But it is also true that in a night billed as focused on the "need to get America's economy up and running ... and get Americans working again," Republicans had basically four policy prescriptions to make that happen: Repeal ObamaCare, dig more coal, rip up government regulations, and elect Donald Trump. Or, as Hillary Clinton put it:
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For what it's worth, Wednesday's theme is scheduled to be "Make America First Again."
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