Unemployment will likely tick back up soon. If it starts looking like there really are jobs available then those who contributed to the lowering number by not looking for work anymore will start looking again and will thus raise the count again.
That sounds like wishful thinking.
However, if indeed unemployment does go down to 6.5, then that's great. No Republican would beat Obama under those circumstances, and that would be okay. The only problem would be if the Democrats got the House back, because then he could eff things up again, but if unemployment went down that low, well ... we'll see what happens when that happens.
I don't think the Dems are going to take the House, and I think the GOP will take the Senate.
Long term, though, the GOP has two major problems.
the first is that it is so in bed with big multi-national corporations is that it has lost touch with working folks and their issues. Romney due to his business record should be poison. It's a lot worse than how many divorces Newt got. BUt the GOP is soooo in love with business and their money that they've forgotten who they work for, and that's Joe who goes to his thankless job every day.
Nope. They want to strip Joe's pension and make him pay for more of his health care!
The second problem is demographic. The two biggest growing groups are Hispanics and Asians, groups the GOP routinely loses. Bush actually made progress, getting 44% of both groups, but McCain it down to 31% of Hispanics and 35% of Asians. But the GOP, and Romney especially, are clinging onto the notion that they need to pander to the most nativist of White People and their anxieties.
