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WTIC CBS Connecticut Poll - 7.8% Unemployment: Is This A True Reading Of The Jobs Picture?
WTIC CBS ^ | 10/5/12 | Anon

Posted on 10/05/2012 10:14:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

LOL, even in ultra-liberal Connecticut they get it. I've NEVER EVER seen a more lopsided poll! Check this out:



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: obama; poll; whoopass
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Maybe there's hope for Connecticotians, er Connecticutensians, er Nutmeggers yet.
1 posted on 10/05/2012 10:14:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sad that a President is allowed to get away with this. Oh, that’s right, it’s that pesky ‘race card’ of his.. I forgot! Silly me..


2 posted on 10/05/2012 10:20:15 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

did it say how many had voted?


3 posted on 10/05/2012 10:22:39 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Holy S*...I didn’t even freep this poll.


4 posted on 10/05/2012 10:23:25 PM PDT by digital-olive
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To: GeronL

Nope. Given the nice rounded numbers right now, it could be 9,925 “Yes” and 75 “No” for an even 10,000 votes.


5 posted on 10/05/2012 10:27:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.” ― Nancy Farmer, The House of the Scorpion
6 posted on 10/05/2012 10:36:59 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Obama at the UN: The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

bump


7 posted on 10/05/2012 10:39:16 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
From the BLS press release today

THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- SEPTEMBER 2012

The unemployment rate decreased to 7.8 percent in September, and total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 114,000, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment increased in health care and in transportation and warehousing but changed little in most other major industries.

Household Survey Data

The unemployment rate declined by 0.3 percentage point to 7.8 percent in September. For the first 8 months of the year, the rate held within a narrow range of 8.1 and 8.3 percent. The number of unemployed persons, at 12.1 million, decreased by 456,000 in September. (See table A-1.)

8 posted on 10/05/2012 10:39:24 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie
Yeah, it's disgusting.

The Underemployed number did not change (still 14.7%.) The number of new jobs was 114,000. It was predicted by economists to be 110-120,000. It was predicted by the BLS to be 115,000. And, since we need about 205,000 new jobs in order to move the needle by -0.1 everyone was saying, 115,000 jobs will keep us at 8.2, maybe even uptick slightly.

This story is almost as flimsy as a "spontaneous demonstration" resulting in the death of the Ambassador to Libya. Not even victims of the American public school system can possibly suffer from the degree of innumeracy required to swallow this line.

9 posted on 10/05/2012 10:50:52 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And that's the end of our show! Doink.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
7.8% is a joke. Is more like 12% all across the board. Unless you are in Texas or North Dakota and some other red states.

The MSM and democrats want the USA to live in "their" Potemkin Village.

10 posted on 10/05/2012 10:57:33 PM PDT by dancusa (Re-electing Obama is like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceburg again.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Ok, these numbers don’t make sense.

456,000 less unemployed than previous month
114,000 got jobs (probably part-time, low wage jobs)

So, where did the other 342,000 or 2.8% of the nation’s unemployed go in one month?

I know.. I know... they’ve retired and are now living the good-life in Kokomo. What a crock of ******!


11 posted on 10/05/2012 11:18:45 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; All

.69% There’s a recovery underway
99.31 Someone’s “Cooking The Books”

10/6 2:29 AM CDT


12 posted on 10/06/2012 12:32:42 AM PDT by KGeorge
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Sad that a President is allowed to get away with this.

But they did not get away with it. Their "attempt" to get away with it just highlighted to one and all how CORRUPT and SLEAZY they are.

13 posted on 10/06/2012 1:15:54 AM PDT by MrDem (Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; A knight without armor; Alexander Rubin; all the best; ...
Pile on time! 99% no. You believe 7.8 % unemployment number?

FREEP THIS POLL ***PING!*** FRmail me if you want to be added or removed from the Fearless Poll-Freeping Freepers Ping list. And be sure to ping me to any polls that need Freepin', if I miss them. (looks like a medium volume list) (gordongekko909, founder of the pinglist, stays on the list until his ghost signs up for the list)

14 posted on 10/06/2012 2:40:49 AM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The dummies aren’t awake yet.


15 posted on 10/06/2012 2:49:20 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: GeronL

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16 posted on 10/06/2012 2:49:48 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: dynachrome

What is amazing to me is that a news organization is even asking whether the books are cooked. When the MSM starts to allow the premise that the One can be questioned, that’s progress folks!


17 posted on 10/06/2012 3:11:44 AM PDT by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

CT, like NJ, has a lot of people that lost financial jobs in NYC. The high-tax states in the northeast have been hit hard as salaries have adjusted to “the new normal” ($.60 on the dollar) while our tax burdens haven’t.

I expect Obama to spend some time & money here; it is really bad.


18 posted on 10/06/2012 3:27:12 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The only way unemployment dropped to 7.8% is if the number of discouraged job seekers went way up. Why isn’t anyone reporting that?


19 posted on 10/06/2012 3:52:25 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I freeped the poll. I wonder why the really high % of people who don’t believe it. (simply because there are Libs who will believe anything). The only thought I can come up with is unemployment has touched everyone. Everyone knows people (or themselves) who can’t find a job. I know more people right now who keep looking and looking and looking. Thanks for posting POF!


20 posted on 10/06/2012 4:56:59 AM PDT by momtothree
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