And no, he didn't have it in his pocket because of the Census jobs-
they were only 48k out of 162k jobs created. Relevant bit is around 2:50.
Vice President Joe Biden predicted the economy would be creating jobs by February or March of 2010 in an appearance on “The Daily Show.”
It looked like a risky bet when Biden told Jon Stewart on Nov. 17, 2009, that the economy would be adding jobs by February or March.
“We had 740,000 jobs lost the month we took office...it continues to go down,” Biden told Stewart. “We'll be creating jobs by February or March of next year.”
On Friday, that call proved correct when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the economy added 165,000 jobs in March.
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When Biden made the comment, the economy had just lost more than 200,000 jobs in November, and it hadn’t had a positive month in nearly two years. The economy lost at least 200,000 jobs per month from July 2008 to October 2009.
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