Staff writers Philip Rucker,
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report. Rucker and Balz reported from New Hampshire. Still, he acknowledged
continuing challenges. "[W]e still face some tough times," Obama said. "There
are still some head winds that are coming at us." Some political analysts said
Obama would have to confront just how fierce those winds are. "The prospect of
economic growth getting up to a point and unemployment getting down to a point
that is comfortable for an incumbent are declining by the month, and are now
not very high at all," said William Galston, a policy adviser in the Clinton
White House and a veteran of Democratic presidential campaigns. He added, "I
hope there's someone on the inner circle with the standing and the guts to tell
the president that, if things continue the way they're going, despite
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Behind the economic distress is a series of unexpected events, including
the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the European debt crisis and rising
gasoline prices. As a result of the unemployment rate turning back up and the
housing market reaching new lows since the slump began in 2006, numerous
economists have reduced their expectations for economic growth this year. Even
more challenging for Obama is that some of the hardest-hit states, such as
Florida, Nevada and Michigan, are critically important for his reelection
strategy. President Obama walks with an employee after picking up gardening
gloves Friday for the first lady during a visit to Fred's Pro Hardware, a
family-owned business in Toledo. Deals blow to Obama's momentum MSNBC that the
plant Obama visited would have been closed if any of the Republican candidates
had been president.
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