A search turned up nothing on Krugman's NYT column today, so I thought I would bring it to your attention.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Rather than focusing on emotions and tone of voice, or even what various 'surrogates' have said or done, Krugman discusses policy.
Both Dems and Republicans are discussed and he believes (not sure if this is naive or not), that the differences in policy proposals actually reflect the type of president each candidate might be.
McCain in his "good natured" way fesses up to not knowing much about economics...
Of more interest on the Dem side, and likely to stir up more discussion here are the relative merits of the proposals of the "Big Three"(more below)
Krugman's says that Obama is 'tilted to the right' relative to Clinton and Edwards. This seems to be a theme with Krugman and I learned much from Kossacks when he made a similar point on Obama's health care plan so I am interested to hear what you think about this.
It is a concern I have about Obama. [that is, that bringing everyone together admits to many questionable compromises].
Here is a choice quote.
"The Obama campaign’s initial response to the latest wave of bad economic news was, I’m sorry to say, disreputable: Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser claimed that the long-term tax-cut plan the candidate announced months ago is just what we need to keep the slump from "morphing into a drastic decline in consumer spending." Hmm: claiming that the candidate is all-seeing, and that a tax cut originally proposed for other reasons is also a recession-fighting measure — doesn’t that sound familiar?
Anyway, on Sunday Mr. Obama came out with a real stimulus plan. As was the case with his health care plan, which fell short of universal coverage, his stimulus proposal is similar to those of the other Democratic candidates, but tilted to the right."
There is more detail on his proposal that follows these paragraphs but I don't want to overdue my cut and paste. Of course the whole piece is short...