Just months ago, Joe Sestak was mired in the political mud of “jobsgate” after he was offered a job in the Obama administration, with Bill Clinton acting as broker. Now, Clinton’s back, this time to stump for Sestak in Scranton.

The two will appear at Scranton High School on Aug. 10, and Battle ’10 will be there to cover the event.

Clinton’s appearance comes on the heels of Sestak having slighted the idea of the president making a visit of his own. As The Morning Call first reported:

“(The president) has offered to come and I went down to the White House and said absolutely, but I said, what I really want, my number one choice … I said Michelle Obama,” Sestak told a scrum of reporters at the Pennsylvania Press Club. … It probably doesn’t hurt that the First Lady has a much higher approval rating than the President.

Indeed, in Pennsylvania, a Quinnipiac poll has the president’s favorability in bad straits: 49% disapprove, 46% approve.