Obama campaign: GOP blocks jobs bill at its own peril

Ahead of a key test vote in the Senate on the president’s jobs plan, the Obama campaign is arguing that the American people “have rallied” behind the proposals.

In a memo to reporters released Tuesday, senior campaign strategist David Axelrod rattles off findings of recent national polling that indicate broad support for the specifics of the Obama plan, called the American Jobs Act.

“The more people know about the American Jobs Act; the more they hear the president talking about it; the more they want Congress to pass the plan,” Axelrod writes.

Obama is back on the road Tuesday in another swing state seeking to build public pressure on Congress to act on the. He’ll likely make an argument similar to Axelrod’s, who says there “is no Republican alternative that would create jobs now.”

“As Republicans say no to each proposal that President Obama makes to put people back to work and relentlessly defend the special breaks and loopholes for the wealthiest and Wall Street, they are rapidly losing the faith of the American people on the number one issue people care about: jobs,” Axelrod says.

Even in the minority, Republicans hold enough votes in the Senate to block consideration of the Obama plan. But some Democrats are expected to also vote against the plan. And while Axelrod has ample material to work with to show Americans are dissatisfied with Congress, polling shows Obama’s job rating is still at or near the lowest point of his presidency.

“President Obama can run from Washington and avoid his responsibilities to the American people, but he can’t hide from the facts,” RNC communications director Sean Spicer says in his own memo Tuesday. “No matter what he says on the campaign trail, his bill has bipartisan opposition, Democrats are unwilling to stand with him, and many of his policy proposals would only further harm the American economy.”