degree that is going to be a referendum on i obama s record, isn t that going to help him if you begin to see this continuing job growth and uptick in gdp growth? the recovery is slow enough that it s not begun to a clear where the like 1980 public said jimmy carter has failed utterly. there is still going to be a lot of anxiety because growth is really slow. growth in 2011 was 1.7%. that s a japan-like figure. we re not used to recoveries being that weak. 2.8% this quarter. lot of inventories, a lot of look like one quarter effect. so we don t know. exactly how strong the recovery is going to be. my guess would be it s going to be kind of bounce along the way it is, which means that i politically, the republican candidate is going to have to make the case for votersti rejecting the president. it won t be an automatic thing that he s going to be able to walk in.nd he s got to make the case for why the president s policies made things worse or didn t make them better, and why hist pol