Trump's new problem: His lead on economic issues is gone
Source: CNN Money
No matter how far behind he was in the polls, Donald Trump always led in one key area: The economy. Now Hillary Clinton has closed that gap.
As recently as mid-July, when voters were asked which candidate "would better handle the economy," they picked Trump over Clinton by a wide margin (54% to 43%), according to CNN/ORC polling.
Now Clinton has the edge. In the most recent CNN/ORC poll, conducted July 29 to 31, Clinton was ahead on the economy question, 50% to 48%.
"It's almost certainly a direct result of a successful, professional, polished convention," said Larry Sabato, director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
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Former George W. Bush Cabinet Member Backs Hillary Clinton
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Getty Images Former Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez attends a luncheon following a meeting of the business council at the chamber's headquarters in Washington on Feb. 16, 2016.
'I don't want to go back fifty years'
Carlos Gutierrez, the former Secretary of Commerce under President George W. Bush, has joined the ranks of Republicans who are supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Gutierrez said Clinton would “make a darned good president” and be better for the U.S. economy, calling Trump’s economic policies a “disaster” during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. While Gutierrez agrees with Trump’s free trade platform, he said the Republican nominee’s economic policies would harm the country.
“The economy’s important to me. His plan, I love the tax cuts, I’m a Republican, but then he has this sort of import substitution strategy, which is a strategy like an underdeveloped country, very poor countries think that way,” he said. “(The idea) that we have to substitute our imports. That would be a disaster.”....................
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Former George W. Bush Cabinet member Carlos Gutierrez backs Hillary Clinton
...Back in July, Trump wasn't giving out any details of his plans to turn around the economy. He was just saying "I'm a successful business man, and unlike career politicians, I know how to do this!" It's all part of the new American myth. The old one was the Horatio Alger myth that anyone could, with hard work, be president, even the poor kid from a log cabin. The new one is that of the brilliant outsider, who, not being in the box, can come up with some amazingly easy answer to solve a long-standing problem. Like Steve Jobs re-imagining the phone, and changing everything.
Trump put himself forward as being that. The "outside-the-box" thinker. And he didn't have to explain his plan at that point. He could just say, "I've a plan..." And people imagined that it was something that would blow their minds once he told them what it was.
But since then, he's been exposed as (1) A terrible business man (which puts doubts on his claims that his business acumen makes him superior to career politicians in coming up with an economic plan), and (2) someone who is willing to rehash old ideas rather than presenting some new and astonishing ideas. So, it's not that the voters polled in July were stupid (though they were), or that now the voters polled are smart (they're not), it's just that Trump has pulled back the curtain, said "Ta-Da" and gotten the inevitable sad trombone reaction from his audience ("Wah-wah...That's it? That's all you've got?"
. These numbers reflect those who've realized that the wizard ain't no wizard.
...of Clinton saying exactly what she'll do to help the economy vs. Trump's first vague then incoherent, re-warmed Reganomics plan. I mean, could Trump have been any more lack-luster about that economic plan? He not only made it clear he hadn't come up with it, and hadn't written a word of it, but that he, himself, didn't understand it...which he probably didn't as an economics master-mind he is not.
If you're going to present an economic plan to people, you have to at least *SOUND* like you understand it and believe it will work. Which is why Reagan was able to sell his trickle-down to gullible voters in 1980. Of course, it probably helps that 2016 voters in states like Kansas, on hearing such ideas, now scream "Hell no!" 
Too funny, drumpf gives a "major" speech on economics and his numbers plummet, who would have guessed.
