BY ERIC ZORN | E-mail | About | RSS  « Omission accomplished |
Main | Oh, boo hoo »  Friday, October 05, 2012  So much for
Romney's post-debate bounce  This morning's headline: U.S.
unemployment drops to 7.8%, as economy adds 144,000 jobs  Yes,
yes, yes. Job growth is still too slow. The number doesn't
reflect the people who've given up the search. But this is
exactly the sort of headline the Obama campaign needed to
reinforce its narrative that the arrows are pointing in the
proper direction and to change the story from Obama's crummy
debate peformance, well encapsulated by Jon Stewart's on-screen
graphic last night, "Obama, Where Art Thou?"  If you missed "The
Daily Show with Jon Stewart" last night or if you're not in the
habit of watching because you don't care for his generally
liberal bent, you must watch the opening segment of last night's
show for his post-debate analysis. The opening segment of last
night's episode of The Colbert Report on the same topic was also
brilliant      So much for the "He ca