News Summary

• Ruben Navarrette: Polls show Americans trust Democrats more than Republicans on the economy.
• He says the GOP has built its electoral success on myths and lies.
• Republicans benefit from being the party of big business, he says, which leads people to assume they have a better handle on profits and loss.
• Navanrette: Democrats do an awful job of talking about how far apart the two parties' economic records are, and it's a total failure of their national party and congressional leadership.