After a disappointing May jobs report, the Obama campaign addresses Big Lie III - and runs against Congress:
Greg Sargent has more:
Romney is operating from the calculation that swing voters will hold Obama solely responsible for the state of the economy, and won’t factor in the basic history of the last three years into their decisionmaking, leaving Romney free to claim whatever he wants about what’s been happening. There’s plenty of evidence that he may be right in this calculation — particularly with the anemic jobs numbers we’ve been seeing. This new ad doesn’t directly name Republicans for blocking Obama’s jobs plan, only faulting “Congress” for failing to act on it. Perhaps the campaign is trying a new tack — reminding voters that Obama does in fact have a jobs plan, without tainting it with an overtly partisan message.
Alex Burns looks ahead:
If unemployment keeps ticking upward over the course of the summer, it's difficult to see how any political message or ad campaign could fully blunt the negative impact for Obama. But if he can somehow convince the public that he's doing his best over the stonewalling of his opponents, it's conceivable that could mitigate the damage, and that appears to be what this ad is aimed at. It's also a contrast with the Obama campaign's ads blasting Mitt Romney's record in Massachusetts and arguing that the Republican doesn't know how to generate jobs through government.
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