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A Suggestion for Romney

Not that he’s not already getting more than enough advice…

I just visited the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site and downloaded data on the unemployment rate going back to when the started keeping such data, in January, 1948.

Two facts which anybody can understand, thus making them potentially excellent ammunition for Romney, both tonight and going forward:

1) The Obama administration has presided over 43 months of unemployment over 8 percent. In the prior 61 years there were a total of 38 months of unemployment over 8 percent.

2) The average unemployment rate during the Obama administration has been 9.1 percent. There has never been any other administration, indeed no other four year period, during which unemployment averaged 9 percent or higher.

Barack Obama’s economic policies and his job-killing legislation such as Obamacare and Dodd-Frank have been a complete and total failure.

View all comments (6) |

Occam's Tool| 10.3.12 @ 5:13PM

Yes, that's very useful. Needs to be used in a situation where it will have the effect of Marciano's straight right in round 13 of the 1st Wolcott fight.

mike 3/505| 10.3.12 @ 5:26PM

If either one of them points makes it into the debate, i'll buy ya a beer...

geronl| 10.3.12 @ 5:27PM

I have seen that stat. Pretty amazing.

Butch| 10.3.12 @ 5:48PM

I think it's a very compelling statistic.

Al Adab| 10.3.12 @ 5:56PM

Oh but Mr. K, we are all better off than we were four years ago... or so they tell us.

Trinacria| 10.3.12 @ 6:51PM

What's the over/under on the number of milliseconds it will take Obama to respond by blaming Bush?

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