....because it turns out that the facts about America’s economic climate are devastating for your campaign platform.

It’s been a rough week for John Edwards, and now comes more bad news for his “two Americas” campaign theme. A new study by the Congressional Budget Office says the poor have been getting less poor. On average, CBO found that low-wage households with children had incomes after inflation that were more than one-third higher in 2005 than in 1991.

The CBO results don’t fit the prevailing media stereotype of the U.S. economy as a richer take all affair—which may explain why you haven’t read about them.

Well the media wouldn’t be the media if they weren’t trying to scare us with stories about an impending economic armageddon, among other things.