Prediction: Good Jobs Report Friday=Crickets; Bad Jobs Report=Election All About The Economy Again

[stopbush]

Last edited Wed Oct 31, 2012, 12:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Have you noticed that the media have totally dropped their "the election will hinge on the economy" meme ever since the economic news has tilted significantly in President Obama's favor? For three years all we've heard is that the economy will be THE issue in this election. Yet all of a sudden, the economy doesn't matter, while Rmoney's "victory" in the first debate has emerged as the NEW bellwether for who will win the election.

That's why this Friday's job report will be hailed as being extremely bad news fro the President if it is bad, but meaningless to the election if it is good.

[JRLeft]

1. I thought the jobs report was pushed back til after the election?

[Jennicut]

4. Labor Dept. said they can get it out by Friday.

Must not have been too affected in DC area.

[IrishSean723]

2. That's pretty much been the story

of every scrap of news for the last month now.

[DCBob]

3. Correct.. but all indications are that it will good news.

Gallup unemployment numbers are down and claims are down as well.

[BainsBane]

7. How does Gallup generally track

compared to BLS numbers?

[DCBob]

9. Just off the top of my head I think Gallup is usually quite a bit lower like maybe half a point.

but the general trends usually match up.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. I researched some predictions by economists the other day and found 7.9 - think

I'll look a bit more.

Wonder if a tick up by .1 would have any effect

[DCBob]

11. A tick up would not be good. That's all the media needs to get in a frenzy about this.

However, I suspect it will tick down or stay the same.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. hope you are right....wonder when ADP numbers come out

[naviman]

14. Tomorrow I believe

[BainsBane]

5. good jobs report = fixed numbers

like last time. At least that's what Fox, Rush, and rest of the right will say.

[Silent3]

6. Crickets except for louder conspiracy theorizing...

...that the numbers have been manipulated by Obama "again".

[treestar]

8. The create their own reality

The numbers are fixed, unless they are bad.

[fugop]

12. Last chance for the media to admit the real state of the race

If the numbers are decent, look for the media to go into overdrive to spin the CHANGE! in the race. As in, it's been Mittmentum, just like we said, but this changes EVERYTHING!

They've started with Sandy, and they'll seal it with good jobs numbers.

It's their only hope at salvaging their reputations.