‘Real News’ War Room: Unemployment Rate and Polls Suggest Swing State Voters Not Better Off Than in ‘08
- Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:46pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 56 percent of swing state voters say they are not better off than they were in 2008. This sentiment may be explained when taking a look at data released by the Labor Department Friday that shows unemployment rates up in July from June in nearly every state, including seven hotly contested swing states in this year’s presidential election. Criticism of President Obama‘s economic policy and job creating performance has been the cornerstone of Republican Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, but the reelection team and fellow Democrats will quickly point to the economy Obama inherited, from a Republican administration; as well as global financial developments that have effected the U.S. recovery and are outside of the president’s control.
On “Real News From The Blaze” Monday the panel discussed what unemployment looks like in the most important swing states, and whether political bias affects how voters answer the question: “Am I better off than I was four years ago?” Watch a clip below featuring guest panelist Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation:
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Amarilloan
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 6:38pmAs for the title of this article…..Duh! YaThink???
Report Post »RayOne
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 2:25pmThe mayor of New York City should orchestrate a Mars colonization program. I wonder if he asked Detroit if it will support the Bloomberg Plan.
Report Post »Real Estate homesteading has been used before, I am looking forward to the Native American opinion on this.
This can be a bigger boondoggle the Soylendra.
Happy Thanksgiving.
CulperGang
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 1:22pmhttp://www.libertarianboosterpac.org/
Logistixs(spell it right)……Zipzap. Just because the Blaze goes along with MSM and ignores Libertarians does not mean that the movement has not grown. It just means that Beck like Hannity has been scared straight by the NWO who BOTH own/operate the Repub/Dem party.
Beck and Hannity YOU need to stand up for FREEDOM by GIVING EXPOSURE to the LIBERTARIAN party………the party of WE the People.
Republicans=Corporocracy=NAFT/GATT=GLOBALISM (Nafta/Gatt has RUINED small business globally)WARMONGERS
Democrats=1%elites of poverty pimps/ngo-third world poverty pimps-un globalist/WARMONGERS
Libertarians=LESS Government = EMPOWERMENT OF We the People.
Why is the “great patriots” Beck/Hannity with huge following DISRESPECT the peoples party by ignoring it??????
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:25pmHad enough?
Really?
Ron Paul:
Veto any unbalanced budget!
Refuse to further raise the debt ceiling!
Fight to fully audit (and then end) the Federal Reserve System!
Legalize sound money!
Offshore drilling!
Eliminate the income, capital gains, and death taxes!
Oppose all unfunded mandates and unnecessary regulations!
Cuts $1 trillion YEAR ONE!
Eliminate five cabinet departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior, and Education)!
Abolish the TSA!
Abolish corporate subsidies!
Stop foreign aid!
End foreign wars!
Returning most other spending to 2006 levels!
And ma’man HAS WON THE STATES needed for a Tampa nomination!!!!!!!
Report Post »LogiStyx
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:36pmGive it up dufus
Report Post »zipzap
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:43amPaul thinks Syria is the capital of Mexico.
Report Post »hi
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:23pmRomney is going to showcase his religion at the GOP convention in Tampa. Not only that, he is going to have a Mormon invocation!
Report Post »This will make him lose the election. Christians will not vote for their President starting meetings with the Mormon prayer.
Call the Romney campaign and let them know this is a bad idea! I read it on Newsmax.
Pheonix1901
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:44pmMormon’s pray in the name of Jesus Christ. I have no problem with that. More power to them and I highly doubt that Romney is going to “showcase” his faith. Get the cobwebs out of your head, and think straight.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:47pmsurely the republicans are not that stupid
they wouldnt even reveal his ‘mormon-ness’ in the primaries
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:06pmif the republicans start making a direct comparison to the future under Romney vs Obama – they will win
If they are depending on people voting for Romney because he is NOT Obama – they will lose
Report Post »stuharnden
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:32pm.Hi Soy,
You are right on, I have several small businesses and I went from 10 employees to 0. Now I work myself and from what I see and hear from the people is a very depressing. They seem to have lost hope and are just waiting for something to happen. I talk to a lot of unemployed people and people that are working part time. They seem to have lost hope. If Romney gets elected I do think things will change soon after. As for myself I could use 3 or 4 people right now but I am scared, if Obama got re-elected I would close up shop instead of fighting Obamacare and all the other BS
O’Lord, Obummer, Obama
Report Post »lgajohnymac
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 2:13pmNot in my mind. I dont get all the hype on the Romney Ryan ticket. What are they bringing to the white house?
What about the future? Republicans have brought this nation to its knees in 8 years. They continue to obstruct policy in Congress to spite America. How soon we forget.
Ryan’s plans increase the deficit as well. Romney, well, like his tax returns, he is just not sharing. We need to get real, cut defense spending, and reel in the entitlement spending about 20%. Has the Bush downturn hurt me? Hell yeah.
I got laid off and found a job in another state. I commute each week to maintain two households to keep that job. I could be sitting on my ass taking a meager check, but no, I sacrifice my time in relocating from the home I love. So Romney and Ryan, no thanks, you have nothing to offer me.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:54pmwhat shocks me is that they can still get away with claiming the unemployment number is 8.3 %
the real unemployment is closer to 20%
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:34pmThat has stunned me for the last couple of years.
Report Post »zipzap
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 12:46amThat’s not unlike baseline budgeting. The system that government overlords use to call an spending increase a “cut.”
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