Some good news for the President. And, in my opinon, for America.

President Obama in Arlington, Virginia.

Reuters is reporting the following:

A surge in hiring in the world's largest economy last month drove the Nasdaq to an 11-year high on Friday as optimism grew that the labor market is on a steady path to recovery. 

The broad-based gains on solid trading volume also sent the Dow Jones industrial average near a four-year high. The S&P 500 extended its 2012 advance to about 7 percent and was at its highest level in more than six months. 

The U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate dropped to nearly a three-year low of 8.3 percent, the government said. 

"It is really hard to find something not to like in the jobs report," said Andrew Goldberg, market strategist at JP Morgan Funds in New York. "There is genuine strength in this report with broad-based jobs creation."

This growth in the job market is really going to undermine the Republicans planned strategy for attacking the President this election cycle. They really hoped that by picking Romney, who they keep mislabeling as a "job creator," it would help them to demonstrate a stark difference between the President's poor performance in job creation, as compared to the completely false narrative that Romney would do a far better job.

But that only works if the President's performance really has been poor. And the facts do not support that contention as you can see below.

They had also hoped that the President's approval rating would stay in a slump, but that is also not working out to their advantage. And guess who the President can credit with the upswing?

The Republicans themselves, that's who!

This from Talking Points Memo:  

The short-lived bump from the killing of Osama bin Laden was countered by a strong trend downward toward the politically poisonous summertime fight with Congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling. No one got out of that one unscathed — but, there was ample evidence that the GOP hobbled itself even more going into an election cycle when they were supposed to have the upper hand, with more voters blaming them for the sorry affair than Democrats. 

After a debt agreement was done, Obama immediately made a successful pivot to jobs, and the public responded. Nothing in the jobs package Obama proposed came to fruition, but that was likely part of the political calculus — Republicans again said no, reinforcing the “do-nothing Congress” narrative after having just hurt themselves on the debt ceiling issue. They followed that up with a fairly clear legislative loss on the payroll tax extension, which similarly pitted Obama pushing a message to middle class voters concerned about the economy while House Speaker John Boehner squabbled with his own caucus. 

Those factors led to an uptick over the last three months, just as the Republican presidential primary process began in earnest.

So in other words the timing could not be more perfect for the President's numbers to start climbing.

Unless you are a Republican of course.