This Headline is Nuts.. "Jobles Rate Weighs on 2012 Presidential Race"

[Stuart G]

..."Jobles Rate Weighs on 2012 Presidential Race"
To talk about something that is 18 months in the future, and what will weigh on it..now is kinda..nuts..
Who knows what will be most important in 18 months. Eighteen months is a long time in politics. Sure, jobs are important, but
anything can and often does happen looking that far into the future..We will see in 18 months when the Presidential election is
going strong.


Here is the link to this story..It is at MSNBC.Com..( at the link, it doesn't have that headline, only at MSNBC.Com..anouncing that story)

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/01/07/5784466-first-thoughts-unemployment-rate-drops

[hughee99]

1. if the jobless rate gets down below 6% in the next 18 months

Obama could get caught with a dead underage prostitute and get reelected. If it goes up over 13%, he could bring peace to the middle east and still lose. I don't have a problem with the headline. Today's rate isn't what's going to way heavy on things, but significant swings in the rate between now and the election can make things much easier or harder for his campaign.

[Clio the Leo]

2. It will be in the 8% range...

.... 7% range if something else major happens. The economy is always a factor, but it also always comes down to who the choices are.

We will have calm, cerebral and charming.

And, as we might say in this South, the GOP aint got sh**.

[JoePhilly]

4. When the Stimulus passed, the unemployment rate was already ~8.6%

On the day Obama took office, it was at ~7.2% and rising faster than anyone knew. Reaching about 10.2% by October of 2009.

If he can get it back to 8.6 or so, he'll be fine.

[hughee99]

5. I'm not sure exactly what the scale is,

but if it's somewhere under 7.4%, I think it's okay to throw up on a foreign dignitary and still get reelected.

[obxhead]

3. I completely agree with the headline.

Barring any huge terra attack on US soil it will be the issue of 2012.