Key swing states see jobless rates fall faster than nation’s

[DaGoose]

With a national unemployment rate that's dropping, but still likely to be around 8 percent by November, most observers are predicting a closely fought presidential race. After all, no president since World War Two has won re-election with a jobless rate over 7.2 percent, which was the percentage when President Reagan won a landslide in 1984.

But a look at the states where the election will likely be determined offers a slightly brighter picture for President Obama. According to data released by the Labor Department Tuesday, the list of places that have seen the largest drops in unemployment over the last year includes several key swing states

Team Obama has been working to capitalize on the brighter picture. It's been relentlessly reminding voters in the industrial midwest of its decision to bail out the auto industry, whose revival since its near-collapse in 2009 has driven a large part of the region's growth. And it's been touting a broader manufacturing renaissance, in which the number of manufacturing jobs has now increased for two straight years, after having dropped every year since 1997.

Key swing states see jobless rates fall faster than nation

So much for the naysayers trying to say that Obama doesn't want to talk about the economy.

Want to talk about the economy? Obama says, "Bring it on".

 

[Seawytch]

With a national unemployment rate that's dropping, but still likely to be around 8 percent by November, most observers are predicting a closely fought presidential race. After all, no president since World War Two has won re-election with a jobless rate over 7.2 percent, which was the percentage when President Reagan won a landslide in 1984.

But a look at the states where the election will likely be determined offers a slightly brighter picture for President Obama. According to data released by the Labor Department Tuesday, the list of places that have seen the largest drops in unemployment over the last year includes several key swing states

Team Obama has been working to capitalize on the brighter picture. It's been relentlessly reminding voters in the industrial midwest of its decision to bail out the auto industry, whose revival since its near-collapse in 2009 has driven a large part of the region's growth. And it's been touting a broader manufacturing renaissance, in which the number of manufacturing jobs has now increased for two straight years, after having dropped every year since 1997.

Key swing states see jobless rates fall faster than nation

So much for the naysayers trying to say that Obama doesn't want to talk about the economy.

Want to talk about the economy? Obama says, "Bring it on".

And he is the only one talking seriously about it.