President Obama suggested Sunday that last week's loss in the 2014 midterm elections had more to do with politics than policy.
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Obama admitted that he sometimes thinks having the right policies should be enough but that his White House often hasn't gotten the politics right.
"When you start governing, there is a tendency sometimes for me to start thinking, 'As long as I get the policy right, then that's what should matter,'" Obama said, according to a transcript.
"And I think there are times, there's no doubt about it, where I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we're trying to do and why this is the right direction," he said. "So there is a failure of politics there that we've got to improve on," Obama admits. A Washington post extract
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Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Obama admitted that he sometimes thinks having the right policies should be enough but that his White House often hasn't gotten the politics right.
"When you start governing, there is a tendency sometimes for me to start thinking, 'As long as I get the policy right, then that's what should matter,'" Obama said, according to a transcript.
"And I think there are times, there's no doubt about it, where I think we have not been successful in going out there and letting people know what it is that we're trying to do and why this is the right direction," he said. "So there is a failure of politics there that we've got to improve on," Obama admits. A Washington post extract
Read More; http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/09/obama-admits-to-a-failure-of-politics/
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