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[h=1]Obama's approval rating is near its highest point ever, and that could be a big problem for Donald Trump[/h]


August 6, 2016






Obama's speaking slot was by design. It previewed an outsize role in his final campaign: Electing Hillary Clinton to be his successor in the White House.

"President Obama gives Hillary Clinton a hat trick: He can help unite the party by bringing out Bernie Sanders supporters into her camp, deliver an aggressive contrast about the threat posed by Donald Trump, and ensure that all the supporters of the Obama coalition show up in November," Ben LaBolt, a former spokesman for Obama's presidential campaigns, told Business Insider earlier this year.
Obama is prepared to campaign for his party's presidential nominee more than any sitting president in recent history. That could be a big problem for the GOP and its nominee, Donald Trump. And a huge boon for Clinton.
The president's approval rating got its own convention bump: In a CNN/ORC poll conducted after the convention, 54% of Americans said they approved of Obama's job performance. It was his highest mark since right before his second inauguration in 2013. Just 45% disapproved.
That number is significant. Earlier this year, an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found that President Barack Obama's approval rating had jumped to 51% — its highest point since his second inauguration.



NBC's team of political analysts called it the "most important number" out of the poll.
"Why is it important? Because it means that Obama will be an asset to Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail unlike he was in the 2014 midterms, when his approval rating was in the low 40s," NBC's Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dann wrote.
The threshold might seem arbitrary. But historical precedent suggests it could bode well for Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state.
Early this year, Obama's approval rating hit 50% in the weekly average from Gallup's daily survey. As of Friday, it stands at 51%. For Obama, whose approval ratings have been stuck in the mid- to low-40% range for much of his second term, it was a notable bump.
"While it's hard to pinpoint precisely why Obama's approval rating has risen among Democrats recently, there are a number of plausible explanations," wrote Andrew Dugan, a Gallup analyst, and Frank Newport, the organization's editor-in-chief, in a post earlier this year.
One of the explanations, the pair concurred, was that "the unusual status of the Republican primary race — exemplified in particular by frontrunner Donald Trump's campaign style and rhetoric — may serve to make Obama look statesmanlike in comparison."
 

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[h=1]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/business/economy/jobs-report-unemployment-wages.html

Strong Job Gains, for Second Month, Reframe Economic Outlook[/h] By NELSON D. SCHWARTZAUG. 5, 2016
“This was everything you could have asked for, maybe more,” said Michelle Meyer, head of United States economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “We’re seeing new entrants into the labor market, which implies a longer runway for the business cycle.”
With the political conventions completed, the buoyant jobs numbers also have major implications for the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
Not only does the new data undercut Republican arguments that the recovery is faltering, it also suggests that after years of paltry gains, deeply frustrated workers are finally seeing some benefits from the drop in unemployment, which was unchanged last month at a relatively low 4.9 percent.
Wages are up 2.6 percent over the last 12 months, a faster pace than earlier in the recovery, and many economists expect that the gain in incomes, adjusted for inflation, will accelerate later this year and into 2017.



“This was everything you could have asked for, maybe more,” said Michelle Meyer, head of United States economics at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “We’re seeing new entrants into the labor market, which implies a longer runway for the business cycle.”
With the political conventions completed, the buoyant jobs numbers also have major implications for the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
Not only does the new data undercut Republican arguments that the recovery is faltering, it also suggests that after years of paltry gains, deeply frustrated workers are finally seeing some benefits from the drop in unemployment, which was unchanged last month at a relatively low 4.9 percent.
Wages are up 2.6 percent over the last 12 months, a faster pace than earlier in the recovery, and many economists expect that the gain in incomes, adjusted for inflation, will accelerate later this year and into 2017.


“The idea that Republicans are touting, that the job market is a wreck, is clearly belied by the data,” said Jared Bernstein, an economist who served in the Obama administration. “What matters most to people isn’t G.D.P. growth, it’s jobs and wages.”

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Longtime G.O.P. economic hands like Wayne Berman, a veteran of several Republican presidential campaigns, conceded Friday’s data was favorable for Democrats, but insisted it represented a snapshot of the economy, not necessarily the underlying trends. A major failing in the recovery, Republicans note, is that millions of Americans who dropped out of the work force during the recession have still not found jobs.
July’s jobs number “is a good statistic for Clinton to pivot towards,” said Mr. Berman, who currently serves as a top official at the Blackstone Group and advised Senator Marco Rubio of Florida during the Republican primary. He noted, however, that the economy grew at an annual rate of just 1 percent in the first half of 2016, a sharp decrease from last year.
“We’re in a very mixed economic picture now,” said Mr. Berman, recalling the presidential campaign of Senator Bob Dole two decades ago, when attacks on Bill Clinton’s economic record failed to resonate at a time of rising prosperity. “You can’t say this is like 1996, when there was no oxygen for Bob Dole’s arguments.”

The July increase in payrolls stands in sharp contrast to data released just last week showing disappointing economic growth in April, May and June.
A reason for the difference is that parts of the economy are still suffering from the continuing fallout from low oil prices as energy companies cut back on investment. Government spending also has been weak and many companies, at least for now, prefer to hire more workers rather than invest in new equipment and increase their efficiency and output.
If business and government investment continue to lag, that could undermine the long-term ability of the American economy to be more productive and raise living standards for most workers.
In late spring, the government reported that job creation in May was much weaker than economists had expected; a big rebound in June similarly caught the experts off guard. The July data helps clear up some of the confusion.


“This is a validator,” said Michael Gapen, chief United States economist at Barclays. “This is a report that indicates that the slowdown in hiring earlier in the year has been reversed.”

June’s gain was revised upward by 5,000 jobs, and May’s by 13,000. The combination of better gains in the spring and July’s increase in hiring means that the Federal Reserve is likely to have a more vigorous debate about raising interest rates when it meets in September. But most experts think the Fed will wait until December to be sure the economy remains on a solid track.
The Fed said in July, after the most recent meeting of its policy-making committee, that the economy was growing more strongly and there were fewer clouds on the horizon, suggesting it was giving greater consideration to rate increases later this year.
But on the policy-making front, William C. Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an influential adviser to Janet L. Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, said on Sunday that current economic conditions still called for “caution in raising U.S. short-term interest rates.”


Job openings are spreading. “It’s been a really good summer for hiring all across the country,” said Tom Gimbel, chief executive of LaSalle Network, a recruiting and staffing firm based in Chicago. “Business has been great. Kids coming out of college are getting hired, and we’re seeing a lot of activity in the $50,000 to $150,000 category.”

The upswing in jobs last month also coincided with a sharp drop in unemployment among the least-educated workers, a group that has missed out on nearly all the gains of the current recovery thus far.
Other measures of the labor market suggest that underlying joblessness is higher than the official 4.9 percent rate, although nowhere near the 42 percent level Mr. Trump suggested last fall.

[h=2]The Labor Picture in July[/h]
The broadest measure of unemployment calculated by the Labor Department, which includes workers who want full-time positions but cannot find them, stood at 9.7 percent in July.

To arrive at his figure, Mr. Trump apparently compared the total civilian population aged 16 and up — about 253.6 million people — with the 102 million Americans who are not in the labor force, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
But in addition to the 7.7 million currently counted as unemployed, that larger figure includes more than 50 million Americans above the age of 55 who say they don’t want to work and are, for the most part, retired. It also takes into account 13.5 million Americans age 16 to 24, most of them in school, and millions of women who have chosen to stay home to care for their young children. None of those people are considered unemployed by the Labor Department.
The payroll figures, which reflect hiring at companies and in the public sector, revealed broad-based job gains, not just in lower-paid sectors like retail and leisure and hospitality, but in high-paying fields like professional and business services as well.

The broadest measure of unemployment calculated by the Labor Department, which includes workers who want full-time positions but cannot find them, stood at 9.7 percent in July.
To arrive at his figure, Mr. Trump apparently compared the total civilian population aged 16 and up — about 253.6 million people — with the 102 million Americans who are not in the labor force, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
But in addition to the 7.7 million currently counted as unemployed, that larger figure includes more than 50 million Americans above the age of 55 who say they don’t want to work and are, for the most part, retired. It also takes into account 13.5 million Americans age 16 to 24, most of them in school, and millions of women who have chosen to stay home to care for their young children. None of those people are considered unemployed by the Labor Department.
The payroll figures, which reflect hiring at companies and in the public sector, revealed broad-based job gains, not just in lower-paid sectors like retail and leisure and hospitality, but in high-paying fields like professional and business services as well.


The household survey, which has offered a mixed picture in the past, was also robust.
The jobless rate for high school dropouts, which has been elevated throughout the recovery, fell more than a full percentage point to 6.3 percent, suggesting that employers who had previously ignored these lower-skilled workers are now taking a second look.
As the unemployment rate has fallen, some employers have raised salaries to retain their best workers and attract new ones. Increases in the minimum wage in many states recently, and increases in the lowest-tier salaries by big employers like Walmart, Target and Aetna, are also beginning to ripple through the broader work force.
But a two-tier job market remains in place, with workers in the same region facing radically different conditions depending on their level of education and skills.
In San Francisco, even the most junior software engineers hired at Sunverge, a maker of energy storage systems for solar electricity users, command starting salaries of just over $100,000.


A little more than 60 miles to the east, at Sunverge’s assembly plant in Stockton, Calif., where the unemployment rate is 9 percent, new blue-collar workers can expect to earn about $14 an hour, or $29,000 a year.
Sunverge is bulking up in both cities. But hiring technical talent is much more time-consuming, said Stu Statman, Sunverge’s chief of engineering.
“It doesn’t seem like it’s that hard to find good factory workers in Stockton,” Mr. Statman said. “In San Francisco, if you’re talking about software engineers or developers, it’s very hard. It takes a long time, and there’s a huge amount of hunger out there for people with these skills.”
 

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the debate is over, worst economic growth in recorded history, worst economic recovery since the Great Depression, Obamacare is the worst policy since the Great Society and the whole world is ablaze

only people living in poverty don't know the difference

after all "what difference does it make" to losers?
 

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Bwaa haa....DumbFinch just can't get a break around here.
 

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You know the drill with the hypocrites in this dump, like the 2 above ,Finchy. Numbers good,-"They're fake, the books are cooked, etc." Numbers bad- "see I told ya how bad Obama is" That's how they roll.
 
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You know the drill with the hypocrites in this dump, like the 2 above ,Finchy. Numbers good,-"They're fake, the books are cooked, etc." Numbers bad- "see I told ya how bad Obama is" That's how they roll.

Keep aligning yourself with Duhhhfinch, it's a good look for you - an improvement. ROFL.
 

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Keep aligning yourself with Duhhhfinch, it's a good look for you - an improvement. ROFL.

Guesser is, as usual, dead on, Dipshit, and the tendency he mentioned extends to other things besides government stats: for a hot second, the widely reviled Nate Silver-whose only "crime" had been to accurately predict several Repub ass whippings over the years-initially said that Trump would beat HRC if the election were held the day he wrote the article, either you or that other Dipshit, Witless Willie-you two morons are interchangeable to me-almost ruptured a spleen publishing it. Of course, now that the tables have, uh, turned somewhat with Rump's hilarious stupid statements the last couple of weeks, the author has disappeared like a fart in the wind. Whatta surprise...
 

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Guesser is, as usual, dead on, Dipshit, and the tendency he mentioned extends to other things besides government stats: for a hot second, the widely reviled Nate Silver-whose only "crime" had been to accurately predict several Repub ass whippings over the years-initially said that Trump would beat HRC if the election were held the day he wrote the article, either you or that other Dipshit, Witless Willie-you two morons are interchangeable to me-almost ruptured a spleen publishing it. Of course, now that the tables have, uh, turned somewhat with Rump's hilarious stupid statements the last couple of weeks, the author has disappeared like a fart in the wind. Whatta surprise...

You're going to get some temporary growth if you make $ free for 8 years. Just like we got some temporary growth when we made buying houses free.

I dunno how it will end, but as I told you before Dafinch, it is getting late early.

I'd maybe look to begin to unwind your vast portfolio of assets.
 

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Guesser is, as usual, dead on, Dipshit, and the tendency he mentioned extends to other things besides government stats: for a hot second, the widely reviled Nate Silver-whose only "crime" had been to accurately predict several Repub ass whippings over the years-initially said that Trump would beat HRC if the election were held the day he wrote the article, either you or that other Dipshit, Witless Willie-you two morons are interchangeable to me-almost ruptured a spleen publishing it. Of course, now that the tables have, uh, turned somewhat with Rump's hilarious stupid statements the last couple of weeks, the author has disappeared like a fart in the wind. Whatta surprise...

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255,000 jobs for who?....Probably for new immigrants & syrian refugees ect that just got off the boat & not for unemployed Americans....255,000 jobs where?...Wal-Mart where 75% of what they sell is made overseas?....Definately not new manufacturing jobs here...
 

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255,000 jobs for who?....Probably for new immigrants & syrian refugees ect that just got off the boat & not for unemployed Americans....255,000 jobs where?...Wal-Mart where 75% of what they sell is made overseas?....Definately not new manufacturing jobs here...

As usual, you're lying, you have absolutely no proof of anything you said, you just keep pulling stuff outta yer ass, just like yer Boy. Look at the dumb fucking lies he told last week about the NFL and about the cash on the ransom plane. Keep jerking off on those Rump crowd sizes, schmuck.
 
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As usual, you're lying, you have absolutely no proof of anything you said, you just keep pulling stuff outta yer ass, just like yer Boy. Look at the dumb fucking lies he told last week about the NFL and about the cash on the ransom plane. Keep jerking off on those Rump crowd sizes, schmuck.
Turns out he was right on the ransom plane cash & didnt have to backtrack....Go read up...So whos throwing the shit again?
 

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Approval rating..I suppose that has nothing to do with with the absolute messiah like adulation heaped on him by 90% of the press right?

Have the oceans rise begun to slow? Has the planet healed itself? Thats right, its easier to buy a gun than a book..You fucking guys are so full of shit, I am impressed you can type.
 
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He said it was the wrong plane not that it didnt happen entirely....I posted a story in a diffrent thread complete with a video of an Iranian news story....Go find it & watch it...
Found it for you...
Could Trump have been right? Propaganda film suggests Iran DID videotape cash-drop plane and photograph shipment of cash during January prisoner swap

36E9032600000578-0-image-a-45_1470417214359.jpg
Iranian state-run media in Tehran did indeed videotape the arrival of a January 17 flight carrying $400 million in cash from the United States - and the money itself - judging from a documentary that aired the following month in the Islamic republic. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been in a firestorm of controversy since first claiming on Wednesday to have seen 'secret' footage of money being offloaded from an aircraft. He admitted Friday morning on Twitter what his campaign had said more than a day earlier, that he had seen ordinary archival footage of a different plane, carrying American hostages freed from Iran arriving in Geneva Switzerland after the money changed hands. But it turns out he may have been right without knowing it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...raph-shipment-cash-January-prisoner-swap.html
 

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Found it for you...
Could Trump have been right? Propaganda film suggests Iran DID videotape cash-drop plane and photograph shipment of cash during January prisoner swap

36E9032600000578-0-image-a-45_1470417214359.jpg
Iranian state-run media in Tehran did indeed videotape the arrival of a January 17 flight carrying $400 million in cash from the United States - and the money itself - judging from a documentary that aired the following month in the Islamic republic. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been in a firestorm of controversy since first claiming on Wednesday to have seen 'secret' footage of money being offloaded from an aircraft. He admitted Friday morning on Twitter what his campaign had said more than a day earlier, that he had seen ordinary archival footage of a different plane, carrying American hostages freed from Iran arriving in Geneva Switzerland after the money changed hands. But it turns out he may have been right without knowing it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...raph-shipment-cash-January-prisoner-swap.html

"could have been right" and "suggests" don't overturn what Rump himself said: he was wrong. You're BOTH liars, and you're a moron, as well.
 

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"could have been right" and "suggests" don't overturn what Rump himself said: he was wrong. You're BOTH liars, and you're a moron, as well.

Either the Idiot Drumpf made it all up(99% likelihood, it's what he does), or he was shown some classified material because he had to be, and blabbed about it, showing why those of us who think he would be an absolute disaster with any serious secret information, let alone nuclear codes, are 100% correct.
 

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