Urgency

clipped from www.washingtonexaminer.com There’s a reason Barack Obama squeezed a hastily-arranged "Jobs Summit" into a White House schedule dominated by national health care and Afghanistan.  You can find it on every page of "The Economy and Politics of 2010," a new survey of voter attitudes circulating among Democrats that, despite its dry title, betrays a sense of dread and horror among party strategists hoping to avoid defeat in next year's mid-term elections. The pollsters found a lot of residual blame for George W. Bush.  But they also found that Obama is gradually coming to own the economy. And for the first time since 2002, Carville and Greenberg found that more voters, 45 percent to 42 percent, say Republicans would do a better job handling the economy than Democrats.  Just last May, Democrats held a 16-point lead. Urgency -- that's the key word, and the reason for Obama's "Jobs Summit."  But voters know Democratic leaders haven't shown that urgency about jobs