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In reply to the discussion: Payroll employment continues to edge up in June (+80,000); jobless rate unchanged (8.2%) [View all]demwing
(16,916 posts)and if those expectations are not met, people will care for about a news cycle,
Then, the higher numbers will be in August and September, which will be compared to the lower #s of the Summer, and the graph will show slow but sustained job growth.
It doesn't solve the immediate problems faced by the unemployed, but it doesn't spell doom for Obama either.
No President since the great Depression has been re-elected with unemployment above 7.2%? Well no President Since Roosevelt has had to face as great an economic challenge during an election year.
Obama is starting to hit Romney hard on outsourcing. what he needs to do now is go to the American people and say "Give me a Congress that will pass a damn Jobs Bill!" Really lay it on. Go full on Truman on these guys.
Truman defeats Dewey and the Do Nothing 80th Congress. That's the election tactic Obama should be following.