Rising job numbers could buoy President Biden as his popularity starts to slip By John Zogby
The numbers tell the story this week. The Labor Department reports that 943,000 new jobs were created last month — almost 100,000 more than expected.
While economists were expecting the overall unemployment rate to be 5.7%, the number reported is 5.4%.
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Cynics will say that these numbers do not take into account a lot of things, nor do they have anything to do with Biden's policies. But I am not a cynic. These are the numbers that provide the baseline for what we have always used for presidents, be they white, black — or orange.
However, on the numbers front, the president's approval rating is at 50%, but if we look only at those polls taken that creep into August, his rating is below 50%.
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A number of things are taking their toll, not the least of which is a rapid expansion of new coronavirus cases, including both breakthrough cases and the delta variant. The president made another impassioned attempt to urge the unvaccinated to get the vaccine, and there is a spike on that front.
John Zogby (@TheJohnZogby) is the founder of the Zogby Poll and Zogby companies, including John Zogby Strategies, and author of We Are Many We Are One: Neo-Tribes and Tribal Analytics in the 21st Century America.
