Obama needs to renew policies for the middle class ahead of midterm elections

The need to address the mid-term elections of 2014, to overthrow the balance of power, especially in the House, which currently sees the Republican majority, obliges the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to focus more on domestic politics and especially on economic issues. After a considerable period, in which the executive of the White House had to put at the center of its agenda international issues: relations with China, the Middle East issues and the relationships with the organization of the G20. The general feeling in this country is that Washington has addressed international issues at the expense of the internal ones, to overturn this common feeling the action of Obama aims to focus on raising the quality of life of the middle class, which is the reservoir of votes more consistent. To do so is not enough to distract attention from the international issues, more expensive Republican electorate, but we must also convince the Democratic representatives who sit in the federal legislative institutions not to engage in more battles aimed at their re-election, which generate an atomization of the program political, weakening it. The problems related to security of employment, education, housing, health care and pensions, should no longer be empty words, meaningless concrete, but must become concrete issues to be resolved with targeted programs. Besides these points were to be central to their policy agenda presented in the last election from which Obama was the winner. Although the data presented by the White House, where it is argued that in three and a half years have been created 7.2 million new jobs, the overall U.S. unemployment stands at a worrisome 7.6%, which is significantly worse than the 5 % that was recorded in early 2008. Certainly, the global economy has recorded extremely also influenced American, however, many attempts have been blocked by legislative branch of the Republican majority in parliament, which did not allow those reforms, in the name of liberalism now too dated, which would have allowed the United States a greater redistribution of income and social nature of those interventions able to raise the condition of the middle class. It should be noted that even in the U.S., as in the rest of the world, the middle class has seen, due to the global crisis, lower their standards due to compression of its availability, this factor shifted on the electoral market risk, not so much a transfer of votes toward the Republican Party, as the further increase of the abstainers and those who refuse to go to the polls. Apart from the desire to create a program that requires the majority of the American population, the value of which might even go beyond the headlines, the need for electoral imposes a greater focus on at least a large part of achieving these objectives, it is virtually impossible without an adequate majority in both chambers. In addition, the economy of the Democratic Party, we must also look at the date of the next presidential election, when Obama will not be re-elected, to present a candidate who can count on the implementation of programs which will attract more voters that the Republican party.