{"id":358509,"date":"2011-04-01T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/good-jobs-news-is-good-news-for-obama\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:31:22","slug":"good-jobs-news-is-good-news-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/good-jobs-news-is-good-news-for-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Good jobs news is good news for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"113.93471383376\"><span id=\"fb-recommend\"\/><br \/>\n<span>By Jennifer Liberto, senior writer<\/span><span>April 1, 2011: 11:48 AM ET<\/span><!--startclickprintexclude--><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) &#8212; A pickup of 216,000 jobs in March is good news for President Obama&#8217;s bid to keep his own job.<\/p>\n<p>With unemployment <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/01\/news\/economy\/jobs_report_unemployment_march\/index.htm\">edging down to its lowest level since March 2009<\/a>, President Obama is well-poised to take some credit and enjoy the political after-glow of job growth, political experts say. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.8%, an entire percentage point lower than it was four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all about the economic psychology, and if people think the economy is getting better and is going to get better, that would give the president a huge boost to his re-election,&#8221; said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, a barrage of press statements from Democrats started flying shortly after the Friday release of the report, praising the job growth numbers and crediting Democratic policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For two years, President Obama and Congressional Democrats took bold steps to get our economy back on track &#8212; and today&#8217;s report is a sign that our actions have moved our country in the right direction,&#8221; said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This sign of jobs growth shows the President&#8217;s economic plan is starting to work,&#8221; said Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Republicans acknowledged the good news on job growth, but quickly added that the numbers aren&#8217;t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any improvement in the jobs picture is welcome news for the country, but Washington needs to do more to end the uncertainty plaguing job creators,&#8221; House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement. Doing more, he added, meant such things as cutting spending, reducing regulations and approving trade agreements.<\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus echoed that statement, calling the job growth a &#8220;welcome sign,&#8221; but adding that &#8220;today&#8217;s jobs report shows that unemployment remains unacceptably high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee cautioned against reading &#8220;too much&#8221; from a monthly report, he noted that the unemployment rate drop is the largest decline since 1984. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The steep decline in the jobless rate and the solid employment growth in recent months are encouraging,&#8221; Goolsbee added.<\/p>\n<p>Political strategists and academics say that job growth should give a big boost to the administration&#8217;s political prospects in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more important than what&#8217;s happening in Middle East because the economy is the key issue in the minds of voters,&#8221; said Alan I. Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta.&#8221;If the economy continues to exhibit decent growth and unemployment comes down another point or so, Obama should be in good shape for re-election regardless of who wins the Republican nomination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Julian Zelizer of Princeton University in New Jersey also said job growth is the &#8220;best thing that can happen for Democrats,&#8221; and that continued job growth opens the door for an easy victory for Obama next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ultimate determination for many voters will be&#8211;is the economy doing better or not,&#8221; said Zelizer, a CNN.com contributor and professor of history and public affairs. &#8220;If it is, that will give Obama the kind of boost that, combined with being an incumbent president, undercuts any chances for Republicans to win.&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2011\/04\/01\/news\/economy\/Obama_job_growth\/index.htm?section=money_topstories&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29#TOP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/money\/images\/bug.gif\" alt=\"To top of page\" border=\"0\" width=\"7\" height=\"7\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/money_topstories\/~3\/GLxDrVWMAhU\/index.htm\" title=\"Good jobs news is good news for Obama\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Good jobs news is good news for Obama<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Jennifer Liberto, senior writer April 1, 2011: 11:48 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) &#8212; A pickup of 216,000 jobs in March is good news for President Obama&#8217;s bid to keep his own job. With unemployment edging down to its lowest level since March 2009 , President Obama is well-poised to take some credit and enjoy the political after-glow of job growth, political experts say. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.8%, an entire percentage point lower than it was four months ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Good jobs news is good news for Obama - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/good-jobs-news-is-good-news-for-obama\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Good jobs news is good news for Obama - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Jennifer Liberto, senior writer April 1, 2011: 11:48 AM ET WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- A pickup of 216,000 jobs in March is good news for President Obama&#039;s bid to keep his own job. 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