The Milwaukee Urinal Septical already laid the groundwork:
Employment figures released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a complex picture of the swing states, showing job growth since December but, in most cases, job losses over the course of the Bush presidency.
The perspective from Sen. John Kerry's campaign, not surprisingly, is quite different. There, a spokesman emphasized the job losses in the state's manufacturing sector since Bush took office. "Wisconsin has fared better than other states," said Justin Hamilton, the campaign's Milwaukee spokesman, "but when you have 65,000 manufacturing jobs lost, you know that you have a long way to go to get where you need to be."
Patterson said the recent gains might be muted in voters' eyes by the earlier record. "When you're coming up from the bottom and you add 10,000 jobs in a big state, it's kind of hard to feel that," he said
Naturally, the sKerry campaign tries to take the sweetener out of the lemonade. The massive job losses were (are) due to NAFTA & GAT, brought in under the Clinton realm (?).
The job gains since can be attributed to the Bush tax rebate, among other fine moves by his administration.
ALTTWISI.