As for the economy, as Time magazine's JoeKlein pointed out on the Scarborough show, the middle class is feeling more secure about employment stability, home ownership and 401(k) trends.
Literary sleuth and Vassar literature professor Don Foster, who famously exposed JoeKlein as the author of the book Primary Colors, sides with the family of Hudson Valley gentleman poet Henry Livingston Jr. in arguing that Livingston is the Christmas poem's true author.