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America Wants Jobs: 31.4 Million Tuned In For Obama Jobs Address
Over 31 million Americans tuned in to watch Obama’s jobs address before a joint session of Congress last night making the address his highest rated non-State Of The Union/death of Bin Laden policy remarks since 2009.
Exactly 31.4 million Americans watched President Obama lay out his plan to create jobs and get the economy moving again. More people watched the President last night than when he spoke about Libya in March (25.6 million), and Iraq in August of 2010 (29.2) million. Fox News was the ratings leader with 3.4 million viewers, followed by CNN (1.9 million), and MSNBC (1.7 million). The jobs speech was nowhere nearly as watched as Obama’s announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden (56.5 million), but for a straight up policy address it did very well.
The increased viewership, even at the awkward time of 7 PM in the East, is a solid indicator of what is on the minds of the American people. Jobs and the economy are the topics that are dominating the American political psyche right now. For most of his presidency, it seems like Obama has talked about everything but job creation. That is not to suggest that the President did not use his time wisely, but that Obama got so bogged down in the healthcare debate that it seemed throw his entire agenda off course.
One of the reasons why Obama’s address last night has been met with a largely popular response is that he is addressing a topic that many Americans have been dying for action on. Obama not only discussed jobs. He laid out his plan for job creation, and almost as importantly, promised to fight to put the American people back to work.
Obama’s shift in tone music to the ears of many Americans who looking for the president to offer a path towards better economic times, and if there is one lesson that the White House should take from these ratings it is that Americans want to talk about jobs. Republicans don’t want to talk jobs. The 2012 Republican candidates don’t want to talk about how they will create jobs. (Hint: Their plan involves more tax cuts for the “job creators” and the killing of Medicare and Social Security).
President Obama should spend every single day discussing jobs. As the debate on his jobs bill heats up in Congress, Obama ought to continue to go in front of the American people and keep arguing for his jobs plan. If Obama keeps talking about jobs the American people will listen, and if he campaigns on a real platform of job creation, not Republican trickle down rhetoric, he will likely win reelection.
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13 Responses to America Wants Jobs: 31.4 Million Tuned In For Obama Jobs Address
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GoodSpeed
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Now that even Moody’s, a conservative credit rating agency has come out & said the Bill will create 2million jobs at the least, the rethugs now no longer have a leg to stand on. They either pass the Bill or they go buy themselves a one way ticket to Mooseland
Nobody Special
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
I think 2 million is “conservative” estimate… It will likely create far more.
Moongal6
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Millions in the health care field alone. Thanks to the PPACA.
EmmaLib
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I was one of those millions, but it did not take into account I had two adult sons for dinner that night, watching the same with me! The Tea-thugs will fight this tooth and nail against this, because it does create jobs and makes sense to restore MIDDLE America!
EmmaLib
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
My very smart sons are liberals as well, who would have watched this before FOOTBALL!
Cassandra Vert
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Write to your Congresscritter: writerep.house.gov/writer...
This is the letter I sent to my Representative. Feel free to use it.
Please support President Obama’s jobs bill.
Unemployment and the deficit are both serious problems, but unemployment is a bigger problem. The Republican-led House has not so much as discussed a jobs bill in the entire nine months of this Congress. In fact, you have caused a net job loss.
Not only does unemployment create a bigger drag on the economy than the deficit, but it is easier to tackle both by starting with unemployment. If you just cut spending, you cut the number of jobs, too. If you increase the number of jobs, you have a short-term cash outlay, but in the long run those new employed people will pay income tax and sales tax that the country has been without since the crash, and that extra cash inflow to the government can go toward paying down the deficit. Thus, expanding the number of jobs can also help the deficit.
President Obama put a jobs bill together for you–something the House leadership should have already done. He could have drawn on the authority of most economists who say the economy needs a big boost, but he proposed a modest boost to make it easier to get passed.
So pass the bill.
Thank you.
EmmaLib
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 7:34 pm
Thank you!
Leslie
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Thank you!
Oldsun
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Congresscritter LOL no I did LOL
Shiva (Moderator)
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Watching chatter around the net many think he is just throwing money at the problem which he did before and failed. Well he didnt fail the last time, he created jobs.
This time is different in that he is offering corporations tax breaks to hire. The cycle has to start somewheres. No jobs no purchasing no need for products. Create jobs and the demand for products will come on its heels
Doris
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Done! Thanks Cassandra.
Robert
Sep. 9th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
The only required response “Fair trade not free trade”. Force all companies the world over to adhere to the same regulation or have their products penalised by the same cost equivalent.
Anything else is just political fluff designed to win the next election, empty speechifying designed to placate the public, whilst the same bank funded corporations import cheap (high polluting, terrible working conditions and worst possible salaries cents on the dollar) product at grossly inflated prices and export jobs and working conditions.
Nett result, turn the middle class into desperate pathetic cowards begging for the next crumb from the overflowing tables of the rich.
Mike B
Sep. 10th, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Unfortunetly the govenor of the state (Florida) I live in, cares more about politics than he cares about the people of state. Even though it could create 60,000 jobs here, out of the goodness of his heart he will reject the money so as to lower the national debt. He’s just an idiot, anyway I voted for the gal that didn’t win. The first chance I get I’m moving to a progressive state, maybe I can trade houses with a conservative in a progressive state. They can have this clown. Hey!! thats a great idea!!
Here’s a good riddle: Whats worse then electing a military man to office? Electing a CEO to office!! Yikes!