It's tort reform, stupid.

As Republicans tear their shirts over their electoral debacle last week, a few of them are blaming GOP candidates for not doing more to emphasize their tort reform successes. On the flip side, apparently some people believe GOP candidates lost because while in power, they still failed to enact any meaningful tort reform.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce polls notwithstanding, it's hard to imagine that anyone seriously thinks  campaigning on class action reform and immunizing gun manufacturers from lawsuits would have saved even one endangered Republican. I suppose it's easier to scapegoat "lawsuit abuse" in all its forms than to face the mirror in the morning and admit, "Iraq is a disaster."

Speaking of the poll, read an interesting dissection of the methodology over at TortsProf Blog....

Comments

[talboito]

It's a form of the "pundit's fallacy" whatever monomaniacal interest the commentator has must be a similar interest to the masses. So when the masses act it is because they share that mania.