Posted on 07/07/2011 8:25:55 AM PDT by apillar
Americans won't cast their votes in the next presidential election based on the unemployment rate, President Obama's top political adviser said.
Some political observers have voiced skepticism of President Obama's reelection prospects given the 9.1 percent unemployment rate. That's a higher unemployment rate than any president who has won reelection since World War.
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Graveyard -—> whistling.
He’s whistling past the graveyard.
Great minds and all that.
Some kind of mind meld.
What’s the Clinton campaign quote of yeah...”It’s the economy stupid”.
REPUBs need to dredge up the Carville/Begala, etc. original clip and just keep playing it over and over.
No doubt Obama himself made some comment about it back in IL.
“In short, no DEMOCRAT gives a whit about unemployment, period.”
I agree with you up to that statement. There are still old-school blue collar Democrats that want jobs. They are just being marginalized by the Obama core constituency.
I think the same goes for his administration. Well, they "care" in that they'd prefer unemployment be high, so more people would look to the government for essentials.
Yes, and the rate is closer to 25%.
Since Obama has been president, we have been told that the unemployment rate doesn’t matter.
Instead, we are told that the important measures are “jobs saved”, “jobs created”, and “jobs related to the stimulus”.
Since there are no official accepted criteria for measuring these three categories, the administration can make up any number of jobs saved or jobs created, and the useful idiots in the MSM will dutifully report the good news.
Plouffe the Magic Dragon may be right that citizens might not vote based on the unemployment rate, but many of the unemployed will choose to stay home on election day because they are unemployed. That, along with the fact that all Republicans and many Independants will vote AGAINST 0BAMA means that he will have a harder time getting re-elected.
There are currently 14 million unemployed Americans. By election day that number could be as high as 16 million. I don’t see many of those being inspired to go to the polls to vote for 0bama on election day.
And this idiot is an adviser?
Yes we will!!
Sonny...ALL politics is local!
Looks like Plouffe and Axlerod pull these comments out of the same a*s. Obama’s?
It’s a shame that stupidity is not painful.
“This qualifies for the stupid statement of the day.”
Sort of, kind of. People are not going to vote on the *unemployment* rate because that number is doctored to hell and gone. People who cannot find jobs but are collecting retirement payments, those working part time (even two or four hours a week) instead of full time, and those that have simply not looking for work anymore because they consider it hopeless are not counted towards the “unemployment rate. Neither are new college grads, who have never been in the workforce before. All of these factors artificially push down the unemployment rate.
Rather, people are going to be voting on the *employment* rate — the percentage of people who want full-time jobs that are employed at full-time jobs. And that is no higher than 75% and may be as low as 68%. *That* is what people will be voting on.
Well if they aren’t voting on double digit unemployment then maybe they will vote on a tripling of the debt, huge government expansion into all aspects of Americans lives, a new war in northern Africa, four dollar a gallon gasoline, nationalization of the automobile industry, nationalization of the American healthcare system. Maybe they will vote on these instead.
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