Why have the improved unemployment numbers not taken hold in the polls?

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

Or did they, and we are actually seeing a muted Rmoney bounce?

[FVZA_Colonel]

1. We may only start seeing it in a day or two, but it is strange

that it hasn't happened sooner.

And I will not be able to understand it, at all, if it has no measureable effect.

[courseofhistory]

2. I don't think they did

They were overshadowed by the continual hype over Romney's supposed debate win!

[FVZA_Colonel]

3. It was just one debate though, where he turned about face on every position he ever had and

has been called a liar on that (because he is lying about his supposed new-found centrism). It makes no damn sense.

[andym]

4. They need to be pushed into public consciousness

and I hope our Vice President and President do the pushing.

[FVZA_Colonel]

7. Biden really needs to smack Ryan about the head tomorrow.

[Alekei_Firebird]

5. Overshadowed in the media, I think

If Biden, and then Obama, is able to change the narrative to touting the falling unemployment, then it'll swing the polls more.

[doc03]

14. The fact that the unemployment numbers improved was drowned

out by the righties that claimed the numbers were cooked. I saw a post on DU a day or two ago that the deficit was reduced over $200 billion this fiscal year, I have seen absolutely nothing in the MSM about it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Because the Corporate "Librul" Media is creaming its pants over the debate.

They are invested in this race being close. A horse race.

The saddest thing about it: We Democrats are playing their game. Being whiners. Defeatists. Apathetic. Downtrodden over one fucking debate! ONE FUCKING DEBATE!!!

[Tx4obama]

8. My guess is because to the average American the numbers are not as important to them...

... as they are to all the TV talking heads.

[Blaukraut]

9. A coordinated effort by the wingnuts to claim that the UE numbers were cooked

That cast enough of a shadow on the good news, added to the incessant debate talk

[AndyTiedye]

10. Perhaps because the Tee Vee Isn't Talking About Them

Too busy hyping the "Romney comeback story". They'll have time to talk about unemployment numbers sometime around mid-November.

[Shivering Jemmy]

11. Is there any evidence that numbers like this move polls?

I do not know. It's possible this isn't the kind of data that affects people's opinions.

Momentum (who's winning) may matter more long term. People like to get on board with the perceived winner.

[Azathoth]

12. Because people were already cautiously optimistic about the economy

Up until last week, the Obama campaign had been surprisingly successful in convincing lots of people that things were on the upswing. Friday's modest improvement was probably enough to keep those people convinced, but not enough to win new converts. The unemployment numbers were a crapshoot for us, which is why the Romney crowd were so fixated on them. Bad numbers would have hurt us, and decent numbers meant at best that we kept the status quo. Only a truly unexpected drop would have generated enough buzz to make people forget completely about the debate disaster and jolt them into changing their economic outlook.

[Roselma]

13. ...because the MSM has been broadcasting that there is doubt as

to the validity of the numbers. This was the result of Jack Welch opening his yap, and the MSM going with the conspiracy theory.

[VirginiaTarheel]

15. The bad economic job reports in the summer did not hurt Obama

and neither did the good October numbers help him much either. Moreover, the media is too fixated on Obama's debate "debacle" and attendant fall in the polls to give much oxygen to another else. Also, the numbers were announced on a Friday, when people's attention was on the long holiday weekend and leisure. Further, the rightwing conspiracy numbers that the numbers were cooked dampened the ability of the jobs numbers to lift Obama. Finally, the Obama campaign has done a lousy, lazy job of promoting the number job numbers and other good economic news. They really are slipping in their campaign strategy.

[TroyD]

16. Team Obama has One Whole Month to Mention Them Every Day

So take this opportunity and get to it!!!

[earthside]

17. Yup. They need to sell that number.

The campaign ought to be up on the air with economic/jobs improvement/headed-in-the-right-direction ads right now!

[VirginiaTarheel]

18. They might be afraid that if they draw attention to the October numbers and brag, the Nov numbers

Might be bad and boomerang on them.

[budkin]

19. They are just starting to... look at Obama's favorability ratings

Should see some nice movement in the next couple days