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The economy, stupid" is a phrase that was coined by James Carville in 1992. It is often quoted from a televised quip by Carville as "It’s the economy, stupid." Carville was a strategist in Bill Clinton's successful 1992 U.S. presidential election against incumbent George H. W. Bush. His phrase was directed at the campaign's workers and ...
Political enthusiasts will recall the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign’s watchword: “It’s the economy, stupid!”
The doc follows Carville, famously known for coining the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign, as he travels across the country to talk politics.
“We lost for one very simple reason: It was, it is and it always will be the economy, stupid,” Carville continued. “We have to begin 2025 with that truth as our political north star and not ...
The phrase, although now almost always quoted in its current form, is actually an incorrect quotation: Carville's original slogan, which he first wrote as part of a poster displayed in candidate Clinton's campaign headquarters, was "The Economy, Stupid", with no "It's". [29]
In an episode of Weeds, "it's the economy, stupid" is a line said by a crazy man rambling about his free goat. Composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz and bookwriter Winnie Holzman created their own version of the phrase while working on the hit musical Wicked : "It's the girls, stupid" to keep their plot focused on the musical's two female leads ...
"It's the economy, stupid," Madrid later posted on X, in a throwback to former President Clinton's campaign mantra. Latino voters were increasingly voting based on pocketbook issues, he said.
The economistic fallacy is a concept originated by Karl Polanyi in the 1950s, that refers to fallacious conflation of human economy in general, with its market form. [1] Whereas the former is a necessary component of any society, being the organization through which that society meets its physical wants, i.e. reproduces itself, the latter is a ...