DNC No Bounce for Obama
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:24 pm
Obama Convention Bounce Looking Less Likely
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Obama officials tried to damp expectations for a bounce in the polls for President Barack Obama. That way, if he gets one, great; if he doesn’t, well then they never expected it anyway. Me: They're Pathetic.
Friday’s disappointing jobs report, coming just hours after the convention concluded, adds another wrinkle.
A senior administration official said Friday that it is too early to know whether the report will impact any bounce in the polls that Mr. Obama may have had coming. But he said it doesn’t help that the report of 96,000 new jobs in August came in below what economists had expected.
“We will see. It is too early to know for sure,” the official told reporters en route to Portsmouth, N.H., where Mr. Obama held his first post-convention rally. “I think it reminds people of what they already know: the economy is healing but too slowly, and there will be some focus that the job production is a little off expectations.”
But he added, “Even back in January, February, March where we were producing 200,000 plus jobs [per month], the American people weren’t doing celebratory dances.”
White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Friday that he expects that after polls settle over the coming days, the race will probably wind up about where it was heading into the convention.
“Our belief is we entered the convention with a small but important lead in most of those battleground states. We’ll see where we are at the end of next week,” he said. “But our suspicion is the race is going to be about where it was. And that’s a problem for Mitt Romney.”
He said that the Obama camp believes they came out of their convention with momentum. “That doesn’t mean the race is going to change significantly,” he added. He said it may have helped in particular their efforts to turn supporters out.
In national polls, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney remain very close, with the Real Clear Politics average of polls putting Mr. Obama ahead by less than a percentage point.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/0 ... ss-likely/
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, Obama officials tried to damp expectations for a bounce in the polls for President Barack Obama. That way, if he gets one, great; if he doesn’t, well then they never expected it anyway. Me: They're Pathetic.
Friday’s disappointing jobs report, coming just hours after the convention concluded, adds another wrinkle.
A senior administration official said Friday that it is too early to know whether the report will impact any bounce in the polls that Mr. Obama may have had coming. But he said it doesn’t help that the report of 96,000 new jobs in August came in below what economists had expected.
“We will see. It is too early to know for sure,” the official told reporters en route to Portsmouth, N.H., where Mr. Obama held his first post-convention rally. “I think it reminds people of what they already know: the economy is healing but too slowly, and there will be some focus that the job production is a little off expectations.”
But he added, “Even back in January, February, March where we were producing 200,000 plus jobs [per month], the American people weren’t doing celebratory dances.”
White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Friday that he expects that after polls settle over the coming days, the race will probably wind up about where it was heading into the convention.
“Our belief is we entered the convention with a small but important lead in most of those battleground states. We’ll see where we are at the end of next week,” he said. “But our suspicion is the race is going to be about where it was. And that’s a problem for Mitt Romney.”
He said that the Obama camp believes they came out of their convention with momentum. “That doesn’t mean the race is going to change significantly,” he added. He said it may have helped in particular their efforts to turn supporters out.
In national polls, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney remain very close, with the Real Clear Politics average of polls putting Mr. Obama ahead by less than a percentage point.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/09/0 ... ss-likely/
