Axelrod Memo: Jobs Bill Is A Political Winner

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Axelrod Memo: Jobs Bill Is A Political Winner

Benjy Sarlin

In a memo, David Axelrod encouraged wavering lawmakers to back the American Jobs Act in Congress this week, citing polling data indicating that the public was breaking hard for the bill.

“Since introducing the American Jobs Act (AJA), the American people have rallied around President Obama’s call for Congress to pass this plan,” he wrote. “The more people know about the American Jobs Act; the more they hear the President talking about it; the more they want Congress to pass the plan.”

Axelrod wrote that poll numbers were improving for the plan as Obama speaks out on its behalf. The president is hitting the road today to tout the bill in Pittsburg.

“In an early September, 43% supported the AJA and 35% were opposed (CNN/ORC Poll 9/11/11),” Axelrod wrote. “After three weeks of advocacy by the President, support has grown by nearly 10% so that 52% support the plan with 36% opposed (ABC/Washington Post Poll 10/5/11).”

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Pass the damn bill!

[WI_DEM]

1. As expected, however, the bill will be blocked in the Senate today

effectively killing it because they can't get 60 votes to bring it to the floor. I'm just hoping that Obama gets over 50 votes so that he can say that the GOP blocked it and it would have passed if it had reached a vote.

[kristopher]

2. The effing blue dogs look set to sabotage us yet again...

It sounds like even getting 50 votes is an uphill battle; which will deliver a rhetorical win to the (R)s worried about campaigning.

[flamingdem]

3. I hope there is some serious arm twisting going on

if there's any room to move with those blue dogs

[Sheepshank]

4. Wonder how many here will remember things differently...

...when it comes time to find another reason to bash Obama?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. the blue dogs are republicans