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Looking Up: Bounce Back on Jobs Could Give Dems Breathing Room

By Rick Klein

This change thing must be for real if job-number day isn't greeted with absolute dread.

If it feels like we’re doing this every month or so, that’s because we are. And if the smart folks are right this time, we’re talking positive territory -- and maybe the economic turnaround will be reflected in the numbers at last.

Or this is a blip, caused by counting the people-counters. In any event, the economy that’s slowly come under the full ownership of President Obama retains the potential to subsume all other issues in the political world this year. (Few will remember what happened in April if May, June, and July don’t look good, too.)

Yet from the other side, arguments about job-killers tend to have more relevance when jobs are actually dying. The creation of jobs starts Democrats on the long road back toward zero -- and could provide some breathing room for pitches on health care and the rest.

Early spin: “The report is expected to show the economy gained a significant number of jobs for the first time in three years, and a Thursday release by the Department of Labor that said that weekly unemployment claims had hit a new low did nothing to lower the expectations,” The Hill’s Ian Swanson writes . “Republicans on Thursday emphasized that if the report is positive, it will only be because government is growing.”

Momentum: “The Obama administration’s spring offensive may gain further momentum Friday morning with a monthly jobs report that many economists believe could be the beginning of a sustained string of employment gains,” Politico’s Eamon Javers writes . “The interest in this week’s release has reached a new level of intensity, as economists speculate that the March report could be the beginning of a sustained string of employment gains across the nation, reversing a more than two-year trend of nearly unrelenting monthly jobs losses.”

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