Investors, of course, they're still concerned about the pace of the recovery, the health of the recovery in the United States
and that is clearly one of the huge challenges that President Barack Obama faces in his bid to get reelected.
Our White House correspondent, Dan Lothian, takes a look now at that.
Launching anything into strong headwinds is never considered ideal, but the Obama campaign, with its slick Chicago headquarters, is doing just that --
facing down a bad economy in the race to 2012.
Obviously we're experiencing some headwinds, gas prices probably being most prominent.
It has enormous impact on family budgets and on the psychology of consumers.
Dealing with the psychology of the consumer before he or she heads to the polls is a daunting challenge.
Four more years! Four more years!
Well, now, actually, technically, it's about five-and-a-half.
While fundraisers from Michigan to Miami have put the president's campaign on an impressive track to a $1 billion target,
the U.S. economy is still faltering.
And that, says Republican strategist Kevin Madden, will be the fundamental issue GOP candidates use to show the president's economic policies have failed.
The problem that he says he has inherited is now his and he'll be judged by it.
Right. I think you're going to look at an election that's very much about the present and then the future, where we're gonna take the country.
And in the present right now, he can no longer make the argument that he made when he was a candidate in 2008, which this is George Bush's economy.
This is President Obama's economy.
And you don't need a poll to tell you Americans don't like this economy. They want jobs yesterday.
Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons says, as long as people are looking for work, they'll keep their minds open to another candidate.
He's got to convince people that his policies are actually helping the country turn the corner and do better.
And at the end of the day, he's gonna have to also run against a real-life Republican who's gonna have flaws and other problems
that the president's gonna have to exploit.
And what about national security?
Doesn't the killing of Osama bin Laden prove President Obama is a strong, gutsy leader who took a chance to keep America safe?
Madden says getting the elusive terrorist was good news but voters like good jobs much better.
It may have been a temporary benefit, but it's actually not going to drive the long-term debate of this campaign.
But Simmons doesn't see dark clouds hanging over the president's campaign. While Republicans will hit him on the economy...
I understand how jobs come, and I understand how jobs go.
...he can hit back with his achievements.
What the president can say is he can come back at them and say, I put two women on the Supreme Court.
I passed health care for 30 million people. I have turned the corner... helped the country turn the corner when it comes to the economy
and we're growing, not as fast as we need to, but we're doing it much better than we were when George Bush was in office.
While many Republicans may not see health care reform as a positive achievement, Simmons says that the president needs to defend it vigorously,
making the case that this is good for millions of Americans, good for the economy, and that the benefits will play out over the next year and beyond.