re: #667 darthstar

Damn…Unemployment dropped again…now at 8.3%. When it was over 9% the Republicans were all saying 8% was Obama’s magic number…if they could keep the rate above eight, they could beat him. I’m guessing they’ll start using 7 or 6 as the new threshold if they haven’t already.

The new talking point is that the “real” unemployment number is in the double digits, but the administration isn’t counting people who’ve stopped looking in order to make the numbers look “good.”

Problem with that talking point is that the White House is using the same formulas as previous administrations to count unemployment, hence if Obama’s guilty of ignoring people not seeking employment, then so is Bush.