In Summary
- It all started that year, when Democrat campaign strategist James Carville coined a slight variation of the phrase.
Remember the famous phrase: it’s the economy,
stupid! It became vogue during the 1992 US general election which was to
be won by Democrat flag bearer Bill Clinton, at the expense of
incumbent George W. Bush.
It all started that year, when Democrat campaign
strategist James Carville coined a slight variation of the phrase. He
was keen on underscoring the theme of US economic growth as one that
would enliven Clinton’s fledgling campaign against that of Republican’s
candidate, Bush.
Although it originally was only meant for internal
consumption of the inner Clinton team, the phrase became the de facto
slogan for the entire campaign.
Tanzanians are going to the polls in October and
there is no doubt it will a fiercely contested affair at the CCM
primaries level. And things will be equally hot thereafter as CCM will
be facing, for the first time since the re-introduction of multi-party
politics in 1992, a single presidential opponent.
In a country with poverty stricken millions like
ours, voters will be mostly interested in a candidate who will propagate
policies geared at more jobs, quality education and better
infrastructures.
Voters will like to know, for instance, how
candidate X will manage the economy so that it speeds up growth that
trickles down to the man on the street.
We know this will be the season of big promises,
most of them dishonest, the idea being to woo voters, but Tanzanians are
intelligent people; they will mostly be impressed with implementable
pledges, not cheap talk on age and looks.
Indeed, economic policies should dominate the
party primaries, so that we, the voters, will get leaders with the
capacity to fix our threadbare economy.
Which is why we are telling all those keen on
being our next President: if you’re serious, show us how you’re going to
mend Tanzania’s economy, not about your “weak” opponents.
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