Unemployment is 7.8%

[LiberalFighter]

Which direction is the economy heading?

Consumer confidence is where?
Which direction is the economy heading?

Romney wants to reverse direction?

[TroyD]

1. Obama needs to mention it about 5 or 6 times tonight

It has gotten overshadowed lately because of Romney's debate performance last time.

[dchill]

2. It has gotten overshadowed lately because of...

the media's irresponsible lack of job performance since the first debate.

[fugop]

3. He needs to mention it

And he needs to mock the GOP for the jobs birthers! And scold the GOP for mourning good economic news!

[drhobo]

4. number could be used in other ways

I think the reason is has not been played up is that it could be used against him. Here is the counter argument : not enough jobs were added to swing the number down to 7.8%. A portion of that drop must be from people who were formerly seeking work who decided to give up.

Edit : found the numbers. 114000 jobs added. The number to break even with polulation growth for unemployment is generally sited in the 100000 to 130000 range. When factoring that in, one can make a decent argument that the unemployment drop had little to do with people finding jobs or economic improvement.