Whose ox is being gored, Administration in power edition

What voters actually care about, in one chart



The whole article is interesting, but look particularly at the graph of who (by party) worries about deficits. It's the party not in the White House. (Admittedly only going back to Clinton in these data)



First, I'm inclined to think that anybody who is worried about budget deficits in a categorical sense doesn't really know what they're talking about.



Second, since budget deficits are a part of life almost all the time, it becomes the convenient whipping boy when you haven't got much else to complain about, or to distract people from your real agenda, or when yo want to distract them from the things you are actively doing wrong.