Unemployment has stayed doggedly over the 8% mark, and today's GDP report doesn't indicate that it can inch much lower before the elections.
This morning's 1.5% reading on gross domestic product report for the second quarter slightly beat expectations, but it's still a puny number. And since no sitting president has been reelected when the jobless rate is over 7.8%, President Obama is going to have to campaign that much harder to win the election.
