Posted on 07/08/2012 3:51:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
How much damage did Friday’s jobs report — the third disappointment in a row — do to Barack Obama’s re-election effort? It might take some time for the answer to be fully known, but one measure might be the reaction in the media. The Washington Post news report of Obama’s response to the worst jobs quarter in two years explicitly wonders whether Obama can maintain the position that his policies are doing anything to help, and whether he has any new ideas to break the country out of this stagnation:
Obama’s message on his two-day bus tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania has been twofold. First, he pointed to modest signs of progress in rebuilding the economy–the health of the auto industry is his principal case study across Ohio’s northern tier. At the same time, he warned that the medicine offered by Romney and the Republicans is exactly the wrong prescription.
As he said here Friday morning, “We tried it, and didn’t work.”
But it has become increasingly difficult for the president to argue that what he has tried is working well, or that he has something new to offer. Each month that the economy produces fewer jobs than are needed just to keep pace with population growth adds to the burden the president faces as the clock ticks toward November.
The Post also noticed that Obama tried avoiding the subject, and hoped that voters would give him a pass on it:
Obama barely mentioned the latest jobs report in his first appearance after it was released. “It’s still tough out there,” he said. But June’s hiring numbers, like those for May, were another reminder that there is still no bigger issue in the campaign than the economy and that its weight threatens to defeat the president .......
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Problem is, Rasmussen and FOX News polls asked this week: Do you think President Obama has a plan to fix the Economy? Do you think Governor Romney has a plan to fix the Economy? I don’t remember the exact numbers, but Obama beat Romney by about 20 points.
WTH is going on. Romney better get off his a** and start doing some serious campaigning; let people know what his plan is. You can’t win by just saying “My opponent sucks.”
Just heard on the NEWS that gasoline around here jumped .30/gal. overnight.
Gosh,,, this should be in breaking news! Obama,,has no ideas?
Yes, there isn’t any new ideas, what would have improved the economy Democrats discarded.
There was no intent of improving the economy, at best Democrats offered rigid tax credits sold as tax cuts to be like Republicans, and tainted Keynesian government spending theory meant for a depression. Welcome to the Democrat Depression...
I have a plan to improve the ecomomy...Fire nobama.
I have a plan to improve the ecomomy...Fire nobama.
The MSM is carrying Obama’s water. Romney knows that with the recent storms across the midwest to the east coast many jobs are going to be created.(Temporary but still there..see Schumpeter) They will be temporary but still, he doesn’t want to have a gotcha moment the MSM can hammer him on.
Obama and dems have stupid ideas - ideas that don’t work. The biggest job expansion has been in paid political hacks to pretend Obama’s doing a good job and shill for his stupidity. Rots of ruck to those idiots.
Dems are sooooooooo bad that we might be able to get away with pointing at them and saying, ‘see, we’re NOT them’...
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