President (To Win Colorado) See Full Big Line

(D) Kamala Harris

(R) Donald Trump

80%↑

20%

CO-01 (Denver) See Full Big Line

(D) Diana DeGette*

(R) V. Archuleta

98%

2%

CO-02 (Boulder-ish) See Full Big Line

(D) Joe Neguse*

(R) Marshall Dawson

95%

5%

CO-03 (West & Southern CO) See Full Big Line

(R) Jeff Hurd

(D) Adam Frisch

50%

50%

CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado) See Full Big Line

(R) Lauren Boebert

(D) Trisha Calvarese

90%

10%

CO-05 (Colorado Springs) See Full Big Line

(R) Jeff Crank

(D) River Gassen

80%

20%

CO-06 (Aurora) See Full Big Line

(D) Jason Crow*

(R) John Fabbricatore

90%

10%

CO-07 (Jefferson County) See Full Big Line

(D) B. Pettersen

(R) Sergei Matveyuk

90%

10%

CO-08 (Northern Colo.) See Full Big Line

(D) Yadira Caraveo

(R) Gabe Evans

52%↑

48%↓

State Senate Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

80%

20%

State House Majority See Full Big Line

DEMOCRATS

REPUBLICANS

95%

5%

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
August 05, 2022 09:33 AM UTC

Jobs Report A Warning For Republicans Betting Against America

  • 1 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols
Joe O'Dea
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea (R-Doom and Gloom).

As the Washington Post reports this morning, new unemployment figures from the Department of Labor blew away the expectations of analysis, with the economy adding over 500,000 new jobs in the month of July:

The unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reaching its lowest point since February 2020, tying for the lowest rate since 1969. [Pols emphasis]

The job market has now more than recovered its pandemic losses, building confidence that a red-hot labor market can persevere as other parts of the economy sour, affording workers historic wage gains and more leverage at their jobs…

“This report is a fantastic sign for the labor market,” said Julia Pollak, labor economist at ZipRecruiter. “There’s plenty of indication that inflation is coming down. Gas prices are coming down. Inventory levels are rising. It looks like we can manage to get inflation under control without halting job market recovery. There’s reason to think the labor market can weather the storm.”

The June jobs report was also revised upward to 398,000, up from 372,000, showing the continued momentum for job growth this summer.

These new jobs numbers are so good that Fox News was forced to engage in some of the craziest chyron acrobatics we’ve ever seen–and Fox News has of course had some amazingly deceptive chyrons over the years:

Fox told its viewers the White House ‘missed the forecast,’ then downplayed that they did so by crushing it.

Fox News’ desperate attempt to spin an unassailably positive development for the U.S. economy is a symptom of the problem that Republicans face hyping negativity about the economy for electoral advantage in November. To the extent that this doom and gloom becomes unsupported by public perception, which today’s strong jobs numbers help greatly in accomplishing, Republicans are going to find themselves disparaging the economic recovery everyone claims to want–and that’s a terrible platform to run for office on. In Colorado, this is especially a danger to Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, for whom economic angst is basically his only remaining message having triangulated away conservative support on a range of social issues.

Today, what’s good news for America is bad news for Republicans. Yes, it’s a pendulum that swings.

But if you’re hopeful for America’s future today, you’re not on the side of Joe O’Dea.

Comments

One thought on “Jobs Report A Warning For Republicans Betting Against America

  1.  

    Do your best Donald and read the script.

    Look, not everyone knows what we all know. We are really smart, we know, we know. We know that the economy is so bad under the globalist now. so bad… so bad with the open borders… with the open borders. The unemployment number is so low, low now there might not be enough workers for the jobs the liberals and dems dastardly keep creating 

Leave a Comment

Recent Comments


Posts about

Donald Trump
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Lauren Boebert
SEE MORE

Posts about

Rep. Yadira Caraveo
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado House
SEE MORE

Posts about

Colorado Senate
SEE MORE

189 readers online now

Newsletter

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay in the loop with regular updates!