7 Of 10 Battleground States Lost Jobs Under Obama

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 10/19/12 | John Merline

[IBD editorial writer]

Seven out of the 10 presidential toss-up states have lost jobs since President Obama took office, and the unemployment rate is higher today in six of those states than in January 2009, according data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

What’s more, six of those states listed as toss-ups by Real Clear Politics have seen their labor force shrink since January 2009, which masks the true size of their unemployment problem.

The state data underscore the fact that, despite the recent drop in the national unemployment rate to 7.8%, the nation’s jobs picture remains bleak, particularly in states that Obama and Mitt Romney are fighting over.

[Jeff Chandler]

Which states are the three?

[q_an_a]

Please don’t come to Texas - try to change you hometown,we are experincing plagues and huge swarms of pests, nobody knows what will save us from the dreaded unemployed bug that is imported in cars with strange liscense tags - like NY, Mich, IL and OH. LOL

[hosepipe]

[ 7 Of 10 Battleground States Lost Jobs Under Obama ]

AND the three that didn't are lying about their statistics..
A democrat LIE... I'm SHOCKED...

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Please don’t come to Texas”

You forgot tornados and all the poisonous snakes and bugs and drout and dust storms and, and.....Texans! :)

[Graewoulf]

” - - - Seven out of the 10 presidential toss-up states have lost jobs since President Obama took office, and the unemployment rate is higher today in six of those states than in January 2009, according data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

Yup, that is what is called “Obamanation.”

[pallis]

Yeah, but now all those unemployed people have food stamps and extended unemployment. They are on a vacation in Obamaland.

[ExCTCitizen]

despite the recent drop in the national unemployment rate to A BS number of 7.8% that most people know that we, as OBAMA LOVING NEWS MEDIA pulled that number of of thin air

Had to fix part of that sentence!!

[ExCTCitizen]

Yeah, but now all those unemployed people have food stamps and extended unemployment. They are on a vacation in Obamaland.

You forgot ObamaPhones!!

[john mirse]

Ranked 47 in job creation: I hear over and over from Obama supporters this: When Romney was governor of Massachusetts, Massachusetts was ranked 47 in job creation.

My curiosity is up. So could someone answer the following questions:

what state was number 1? what were the states ranked 1 to 10?

What were the bottom 10 states, if Massachusetts was ranked 47?

Unemployment: What was Massachusetts unemployment rate and rank at the same time?

Was Massachusetts unemployment rank also 47, or wsa it higher?

That is, what was Massachusetts unemployment rate and where did this rate rank among the 57, I mean, 50 states? Sorry, I was thinking in Obama terms when I said 57 states.