Last minute battle for the small business vote

Posted on | October 28, 2008 | 1 Comment

What a hoot!

Here we are, at the tag end of The Campaign That Never Ends (channeling Shari Lewis and Lambchop) before the candidates finally got around to talking about small business.

And, now that they’ve decided to chase the small business vote, its turning into a huge battle.

For some reason, I find that hilarious.

Interestingly, according to the latest edition of the Discover Small Business Watch (conducted by Rasmussen), all the rhetorical skirmishing hasn’t done either candidate much good when it comes to small businesses. A sobering 81% of small business owner survey respondents did not feel that the campaign “has created a forum for them to heard by the candidates.”

Nice try, fellas, but no cigar.

It would have been a lot more impressive if they had started out paying more than lip service to small businesses from the beginning but I guess, given what’s been happening on Wall Street, it was high time to start sounding like they thought small businesses will pull our collective chestnuts out of the fire.

And we will, of course. We always do.

I just wish the politicians didn’t need a piano dropped on their heads before they remember that.

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