Battered Wife Syndrome: Obama's Economy Hits His Own Voters Hardest

Yes it's ironic, but more than that, it's tragic.

by Rod D. Martin
September 4, 2013

My friend Stephen Moore writes in today's Wall Street Journal that young people, single women and minorities have done far worse economically these past four years than the rest of America.  No duh.

To put that into dollar terms, in the four years between the time the Obama recovery began in June 2009 and June of this year, median black household income fell by just over $4,000, Hispanic households lost $2,000 and female-headed households lost $2,300.

The unemployment numbers show pretty much the same pattern. July's Bureau of Labor Statistics data (the most recent available) show a national unemployment rate of 7.4%. The highest jobless rates by far are for key components of the Obama voter bloc: blacks (12.6%), Hispanics (9.4%), those with less than a high-school diploma (11%) and teens (23.7%).

Now you might think that all these people were voting for Obama because they started out poor and Obama is working hard to lift them out of heartless, Republica…