TobiasFunke
Footballguy
The point of my post wasn't that one statistic is useless and another is all-encompassing. It's that this isn't happening as much as the GOP would like you to believe. Simple as that.That doesn't matter either. I'm not interesting in arguing over whether or not tommyboy's statistics are truly accurate, nor whether or not Obama is truly responsible for the employment numbers, good or bad. None of that is important to my point, which is that the public is suffering, there's not enough jobs out there, and they blame Obama because he is in charge, and they will continue to blame Obama until this is resolved or he is no longer in charge, at which point they will blame the next President if nothing changes.
The public isn't going around looking up Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers. They're watching their friends, neighbors, family, and sometimes themselves, lose jobs and can't find replacements. Their children are graduating from college and being forced to move back home because there's no jobs waiting for them. And they're pissed off about it, and scared as well. You can quote all the figures you want, but THIS is what drove the vote Tuesday night, and it will continue to drive the vote unless things get better.
Obviously I wish it wasn't happening at all, and obviously we're not at peak employment or in the midst of an economic boom like the 1990s or something, but things are OK. What drove the vote Tuesday night was the standard mid-second term factors. The voter demographics from Tuesday night look nothing like the voter demographics of a typical election.
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