Last pre-election jobs numbers look solid, encouraging
The final jobs numbers of the election season, released just before the final weekend of the election season, show that “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 171,000 in October, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.9 percent,” according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
That job growth is slightly higher than the 2012 average growth of 157,000 per month.
Adding to the optimism, August job growth was revised upward from the reported 142,000 to the more current 192,000, and job growth for September was also revised upward from 114,000 to 148,000.
– Jay Bookman
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Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
9:54 am
bob
November 2nd, 2012
9:47 am
______
Hindsight is always 20-20. Futuresight is not as good.
Steve
November 2nd, 2012
9:54 am
Why are conservatives such whiners, hate America, and want the government to fix all their problems?
Donovan
November 2nd, 2012
9:55 am
The spin continues. It’s pathetic how Democrats wallow in the mud and pretend to be clean. You all know the saying about putting lip stick on a pig, don’t you?
The truth of the matter is that unemployment rose from 7.8% to 7.9%. No other president has had worse numbers since FDR and no president has ever been elected with unemployed numbers similar to these numbers.
Also, that Benghazi “bump in the road” story just won’t go away. I guess when you take this long to get the story straight, when you lie about the so-called facts, and when you come up with a late breaking confession just before the election the American public aren’t buying the slop these pigs are selling.
After the Benghazi compound had a hole blown open in its wall in June, requests for more security tuned down 3 times in August, disregarding the presence of al Qaeda in Libya with the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, and failing to send military help during the attack speaks volumes about the credentials of a community organizer running this country.
Most of all…YOU DON’T LEAVE YOUR PEOPLE BEHIND.
willie lynch
November 2nd, 2012
9:56 am
The Fallen
November 2nd, 2012
9:44 am
‘Come on man’ are you really throwing around the you didn’t build that nonsense again? Things like that really demean any argument you put before or after it for that matter.
Ireland is broke and sports one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe. Economic liberty isn’t putting food on the table sound recovery policy is, as evidenced by our movement in this country. That’s why the austerity nonsense touted by the Republicans has been credited with exacerbating the economic problems of the EU and have many of the countries questioning whether they will even remain committed.
The countries across the pond are trying to emulate the American recovery policies not the other way around. Look, nobody wants to spend at the rate you have to in this day and time but this is a once in a hundred year world problem. In the words of the streets: “you gotta do what you gotta do.”
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
Ben Shockley
November 2nd, 2012
9:51
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That is stupidity of union members. Not liberals. People that don’t want change, e.g. the union members are conservatives, not liberals.
H. E. Pennypacker
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
For all the conservatives that love to act like they have superior knowledge, why did a recent poll of Harvard MBA students forsake the Harvard MBA running for President and 2/3rds of them select Obama?
If only they would put down those books and watch Fox I suppose.
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121031184343-17970806-why-harvard-mbas-favor-obama-over-one-of-their-own
Lord Help Us
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
‘After the Benghazi compound had a hole blown open in its wall in June, requests for more security tuned down 3 times in August, disregarding the presence of al Qaeda in Libya with the upcoming 9/11 anniversary, and failing to send military help during the attack speaks volumes about the credentials of a community organizer running this country.’
Lies…sad…
Adam
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
Also btw, anyone notice that the “real” unemployment rate went DOWN?
Steve
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
Donovan, if McCain had won, you’d be praising how well McCain has pulled us out of the Great Recession so far.
A Moderate in Jay's Neighborhood
November 2nd, 2012
9:57 am
Alas, the Jaycolytes cannot rethink their positions nor can the far right. Will the last moderate please turn out the lights.
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
The pathetic jobs numbers are solid proof that leftists have been in control for too long.
SPC
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
Anyone who thinks this economy is doing well is looking through rose colored glasses. Planned layoffs are up, capital spending is down, average wages are down and no one has a clue what our economic conditions are going to be in just 3 months.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
L. Nightmare — “I’ll simplify it for your simpleton government schooled mind….you loan money to those who can’t pay it back and you’re going to lose your arse.”
I’ll simplify it for *you.*
The LIAR and NINJA loans were mostly made by lending institutions that were not subject to the CRA — in fact, 80% of them were. So in that case, it was the *lack* of government oversight and regulation that contributed to the problem.
And at the *regulated* institutions, well over half of the mortgage pools that went bad in the market crash were made up of loans extended to borrowers with credit scores of 700 and higher. So in that case it wasn’t poor people lying on their loan applications — it was well-off people overextending themselves.
I get pretty tired of this ZOMGGGGG POAR PEEPS AND GUBMINT REGZ ATE TEH EKONOMEEE bulldada.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
You all know the saying about putting lip stick on a pig, don’t you?
what does Snowbillie Snooki have to do with this?
No Hope
November 2nd, 2012
9:59 am
Steve – If McCain had won, we would be out of this recession by now.
Lord Help Us
November 2nd, 2012
9:59 am
‘The pathetic jobs numbers are solid proof that leftists have been in control for too long.
As opposed to those wonderful numbers in the waning days of the Bush admin…
TiredOfIt
November 2nd, 2012
9:59 am
When Harvard Business School students where asked who they would vote for next week, Romney would lose in a landslide. Two surveys by The Harbus, the MBA student newspaper at Harvard, showed yesterday (Oct. 30), that Obama had the support of 65% of the students versus 32% for HBA alumnus Romney.
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
9:59 am
Steve
November 2nd, 2012
8:59 am
If Obama has been such a failure for the economy, why are we slowly but surely pulling ourselves out of the mess that the GOP created?
Less people employed now than when he took office. Only a Democratic shill would consider this a success.
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
10:00 am
Anyone who thinks this economy is doing well is looking through rose colored glasses.
_______
Nobody says the economy is doing well. They say it is beginning to grow and recover. And the number bear that out.
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
10:01 am
Steve – If McCain had won, we would be out of this recession by now
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Yes, and in a depression or living in caves.
TiredOfIt
November 2nd, 2012
10:01 am
Republicans make great Monday morning quarterbacks, it’s the real world they cannot get right. Remember 2008 – the – crash.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 am
Drudge — “So even though UE went back up to 7.9, you are looking at net jobs and seeing it as a win? Wow. Your cup is indeed 1/2 full – even if your cup doesn’t keep pace with population growth.”
I think it’s pretty funny how cons crow about the unemployment rate in relation to population growth NOW when they didn’t even recognize its existence during the Bush Administration.
In the 96 months of the Bush Administration, job growth outpaced natural population growth for only 24 of those months.
That’s right, only 25%. And you’re slagging on Obama? Better check the BLS stats, kids, because Obama beats Bush on that metric, hands down.
Lord Help Us
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 am
‘Yes, and in a depression or living in caves.’
and with a VP that thinks the Queen governs the UK…
Corbin Sharpe. I think, therefore I am...I think.
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 am
I don’t understand why some on this blog seem to be unhappy with the rise in employment.
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:02 am
Funny line by David Burge: “Breaking: EPA declares Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens endangered wetlands”
Lord Help Us
November 2nd, 2012
10:03 am
‘Funny line by David Burge’
Yeah…hilarious…ashole.
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:03 am
More Burge: “The lowest monthly UE rate under this president > than the highest monthly UE rate under his predecessor. This has never happened before.”
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:04 am
More Burge: “In 2009 Obama forecast Oct 2012 unemployment of 5.2%. Missed it by 4.2 million jobs.”
Mary Elizabeth
November 2nd, 2012
10:04 am
Bob, 9:47 am
“Mary Elizabeth, Please tell us what was in the jobs bill that was not in the stimulus bill.
=======================================
Please read the article in the link, below, and listen to President Obama’s two video clips therein, especially his last one, and you will get the answer to your question of me.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/19/politics/senate-bring-jobs-home-bill-blocked/index.html
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:04 am
Good thing all those defense contractors didn’t lay off all those employees (thanks to Obama’s sequestration) before the election…..
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:05 am
“No other president has had worse numbers since FDR”
Yeah, and FDR inherited a lousy economy from the Republican businessman Herbert Hoover. Coincidence or…conspiracy?
From the Center
November 2nd, 2012
10:05 am
Four more days until we find out what the American people really think of this administrations performance
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:05 am
More Burge: “In October, the number of unemployed job seekers grew by 170k.”
James Pethokoukis: “10.6%: Unemployment rate if labor force participation rate was the same as when Obama took office”
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
10:06 am
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
_____
We need government by moderates and people in the center who are not bound by ideology. And the candidates closest to the center generally win.
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:07 am
Just more burger flipping jobs….
October Jobs Report Shows Incomes Continuing to Decline
“The Labor Department reported Friday that despite 171,000 jobs being added to nonfarm payrolls in October, average hourly earnings for such employees edged down by 1 cent to $23.58.
Average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees also dropped by 1 cent to $19.79.
This continues a trend reported by the Census Bureau in August finding that since the recovery began in June 2009, median household incomes have fallen 4.8 percent adjusted for inflation.”
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/02/october-jobs-report-shows-incomes-continuing-decline#ixzz2B4KKbbAW
Erwin's cat
November 2nd, 2012
10:07 am
FLAT…it’s the new UP
The Thin Guy
November 2nd, 2012
10:07 am
Who should I believe? Bookman or the cobwebs in my wallet?
Well at least there is one honest newspaper left in this once great country.
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
If you’re grandpa liked Herbert Hoover’s Great Depression and if you liked GW Bush’s Great Recession, then vote for Republican businessman Mitt Romney. You aint seen nuthin’ yet!
H. E. Pennypacker
November 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
Poor Rags, he is upset the President said that Ayn Rand is for “Misunderstood teens”.
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
*your
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
Long-Term Unemployment Rises in October to 40.6%
“The long-term unemployment rate rose to 40.6 percent in October, up from September’s level of 40.1 percent of the total unemployed, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday.
Long-term unemployment is unemployment lasting for 27 consecutive weeks or longer, according to BLS.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/long-term-unemployment-rises-october-406
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
November 2nd, 2012
10:08 am
Hey CONs look on the bright side , you still have Grover Norquist and Rush maybe they can by some land way out in the wilderness and you all can take vacations out there.. LOL…
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:09 am
Big Jump in Unemployment for Blacks
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the biggest change in employment over the last month affected black workers. In September, the unemployment rate for blacks was 13.4 percent. In October, that number jumped to 14.3 percent, an almost a full percentage point change, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/big-jump-unemployment-blacks_660067.html
kayaker 71
November 2nd, 2012
10:10 am
Romney 320….. Bozo 218. Believe it.
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:10 am
Billings- I agree that long term unemployment is terrible. Why has the GOP congress stonewalled every attempt to put people to work? Is it because they can’t get a “personhood” amendment attached to the bills?
St Simons
November 2nd, 2012
10:10 am
Drink – every time you hear/read ‘cook the books’ – and pls don’t drive
cons, I know this is foreign to you, but honest accountants
don’t cook books. That’s criminal.
can I call you a child molester if i don’t like your answer? Deal?
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:11 am
“For Every Person Added to Jobs Rolls Since January 2009, 75 People Added To Food Stamp Rolls.”
Morality?
November 2nd, 2012
10:11 am
8% unemployment is something to celebrate? That is still twice as high as it should be in a recovery. Full employment is considered to be 4 1/2 % unemployment. There are millions that have given up even looking for a job. Begs the possibility that these books are cooked. 8 + % unemployment is nothing to celebrate unless you are happy with failure: $6,000,000,000,0000 + added to the Fed debt in 4 short years under the Obama/Pelosi reign and still 8% + unemployment – not counting the millions that have given up looking for work and the tens of thousands added to the disability rolls which is the new welfare. Obama’s handlers are touting one person moved from unemployment rolls to the disability rolls as a gub’ment created job. Disability rolls have TRIPLED under Obama…… and that is economic recovery success? Common sense says the Obama/Pelosi plan to spend your way out of debt has taken us to the edge of the fiscal cliff….. We can’t afford 4 more years of Obama/Pelosi. FIRE OBAMA!
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
10:11 am
R. Danneskjold — “More Burge: “The lowest monthly UE rate under this president > than the highest monthly UE rate under his predecessor. This has never happened before.”
Well, Obama also falls short of Bush in these measurements:
Total job loss
DJIA trough-peak comparison
Peak amount of jobs lost/month
Shrug.
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
10:12 am
Romney 320….. Bozo 218. Believe it.
_____
When I see it.
H. E. Pennypacker
November 2nd, 2012
10:12 am
Kayaker,
I have looked at the math for swing state delegates and can’t quite figure out how you get to 320. Given your high level of confidence at that figure over the last few weeks, what states are you predicting to go Romney’s way?
Usually Optmistic
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
Obams promised unemployment would be under 6% (it’s 7.9%). Obama prmised the deficit would be cut in half(it’s doubled). More people on food stamps than ever. More people unemployed or under employed than ever. That’s the good news?
Welcome to the Occupation
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
I think you’re right, Oscar. I don’t disagree with any of that.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
K71 — “Romney 320….. Bozo 218. Believe it.”
You’re still high if you’re buying into those Colorado dudes’ brand-new analysis.
curious
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
With jobs being added, the increase in the unemployment rate is probably a function of people reentering the job market.
To me, that’s an encouraging sign that optimism is building.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
SIGN Grovers pledge . I pledge to be a liar, tax evader and job destroyer. OK your Hired..NOT..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
November 2nd, 2012
10:14 am
Retired General Keane Debunks Fox’s Outrageous Claim That The Administration Left Americans To Die In Benghazi — On Fox & Friends.
It would be funny if the sad posters who have lost their marbles with this story (many of our FTroop contingent) were not continuing the lies.
AmericaShrugged
November 2nd, 2012
10:14 am
“The work force — the number of people either working or looking for work — rose by 578,000. And 410,000 more people said they were employed. The number of unemployed increased 170,000 to 12.3 million, pushing up the unemployment rate.”
Great news? 171,000 new jobs and 170,000 more unemployed???? 12.3 million unemployed is excellent news? And that doesn’t even count how many millions more that have given up looking for work?
I see how Obama wins. He gets all the dummnies on here that consider this great news to vote for him.
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
10:14 am
Last jobs report before election shows economy in ‘virtual standstill’
The final monthly jobs report before Election Day offered a mixed bag of economic evidence that would surely become political putty for the presidential candidates, with the unemployment rate ticking up to 7.9 percent but the economy adding a better-than-expected 171,000 jobs.
At the same time, the number of unemployed grew by 170,000, roughly the same amount — to 12.3 million.
A net of 1,000 jobs! Woohoo! The economy has turned around! Obama has saved us from the devastating ignorance of Bush! Woohoo! 4 more years! 4 more years! Geez, the spin hear makes me nauseous.
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
10:15 am
ITS ALL BUSH’S FAULT
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 am
SIGN Grovers pledge . I pledge to be a liar, tax evader and job destroyer. OK your Hired..NOT..
Two words: Tim Geithner
Stephenson Billings
November 2nd, 2012
10:15 am
Two-thirds of jobs go to immigrants during Obama’s four years
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/31/two-thirds-of-jobs-go-to-immigrants/#.UJJd2_E9JXQ.mailto
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:15 am
Mary Jane is semi-legal in Colorado – yes?
Morality?
November 2nd, 2012
10:15 am
If accountants work for the Obama/Pelosi team who said they are honest? That is your assumption or hope. Hush money, payoffs, and kickbacks aren’t out of the ordinary in D.C. Considered siness as usual.
Dixie Chicks
November 2nd, 2012
10:16 am
Lest we forget George W. Bush….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pojL_35QlSI
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
10:16 am
Morality?
November 2nd, 2012
10:11 am
You’re gonna confuse these people with something they don’t like…the truth!
Welcome to the Occupation
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
Morality? “8% unemployment is something to celebrate? That is still twice as high as it should be in a recovery”
Yeah, yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying here. But the obvious solution to the problem, the one utilized by Roosevelt for ex. in the 1930s, no one is even talking about this. Why not? Because neither party is interested in it.
You have corporations fatter than ever, sitting on trillions of dollars in cash without investing very much of it. And why are you tolerating it? Same reason as the liberals are tolerating it. Because the consensus that is handed down to us from the big capital overlords, those who dictate the confines of permissible political discourse in this system, is such that we have to.
Tonto
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
The last Republican Administration destroyed 4,560,000 manufacturing jobs in 8 years, while Obama has increased manufacturing employment by 508,000 since 1/2010. We now have in-sourcing of jobs under Obama where skilled union workers are more important than low cost workers. The last Republican administration inherited a 4.3% unemployment and nearly doubled it to 7.8% at the end of the administration, inherited a surplus and turned it into a trillion dollar deficit, inherited Dow Jones Industrial Average of 10,500 that rose to 11,091 on June 7, 2001 when he signed legislation that started his tax cuts for the rich, but resulted in a 30% decrease in the Dow to 8,000 by the end of the administration. Tickle down does not work. Republicans make the economy worse, where Democrats make things gradually better. Of course we are better off than 4 years ago. Obama has increased total employment over 4 million, increased manufacturing employment over half a million, maintained the same deficit that he inherited, and more than doubled your retirement IRAs and investments with the doubling of the Dow from 6,600 to now over 13,000 or over 6 trillion dollars in stock market value. When those capital gains are taxed you will see a dramatic increase in revenue and decrease in deficit even though the 15% long term rate is too low. With the trajectory of the last Republican Administration, we would now be near 12% unemployment, 1.5 trillion dollars a year deficit, and a 6,500 Dow. Why has every Republican Administration since Nixon, (Ford, Regan, Bush I, and Bush II) destroyed millions of union manufacturing jobs while every Democratic Administration since Nixon (Carter, Clinton, and Obama) increased manufacturing employment by hundreds of thousands?
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
Immigrants pay into Social Security. Immigrants pay income taxes. My family immigrated in the 1600’s, so I have no problem with any hard working person getting a job.
ITS ALL BUSH'S FAULT
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
Down , Geitner’s not perfect but Grovers a jewel.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
H. E. Pennypacker — “Kayaker, I have looked at the math for swing state delegates and can’t quite figure out how you get to 320. Given your high level of confidence at that figure over the last few weeks, what states are you predicting to go Romney’s way?”
He’s relying on that brand-new methodology from those two professors in Colorado. The cons have convinced themselves that those guys have called every election accurately since 1980, but they only rolled out their analysis *this year.* They didn’t actually predict anything — in fact, they haven’t YET predicted anything accurately. They simply constructed their model so that its *results* would match the actual results from all the races since 1980, then ran it on this year’s race and reported their results as a ‘prediction.’
It is as if I developed a methodology for predicting Powerball winners by simply *claiming* I had called every winner since Powerball went live. Would *you* rely on my prediction, or would you figure out that I was blowing smoke? Well, K71 hasn’t figured it out — he’s been suckered by those numbers. All that remains now is for him to see how badly those Colorado profs were wrong next week.
Latest Job Numbers Better Than Expected
November 2nd, 2012
10:18 am
[...] reddit_title = "Latest Job Numbers Better Than Expected"; 808a9ad63e2a1fd4d27040f4bae02b1eJobs jumped 171,000 in October,with unemployment staying statistically even at [...]
Welcome to the Occupation
November 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
Morality? “Common sense says the Obama/Pelosi plan to spend your way out of debt has taken us to the edge of the fiscal cliff”
“Common sense” may say it. But common sense would be wrong.
Remember that the places where the anti-spending approach has taken hold most aggressively: the UK and the EU, are precisely the places that have seen the most terrifyingly bad economic numbers since adopting such an approach.
Care to explain then why you persist in thinking that reduced spending is a way out of our predicament when all the evidence in the world — quite literally — suggests the opposite?
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
ITS ALL BUSH’S FAULT
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
Down , Geitner’s not perfect but Grovers a jewel
For the record, not a Grovers fan…
Get Real
November 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
What are you talking about, unemployment just ticked back to 7.9%
JohnnyReb
November 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
Here’s a good example of why Romney and Conservatives will carry the day come Tuesday – one word – Bloomberg.
The idiot mayor is using generators, security personnel, etc, etc to have a marathon while people can’t purchase gasoline due to the service station not having electricity.
I hope they tar and feather him and stick a gun barrel up his butt as they ride him out of town.
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 2nd, 2012
10:20 am
“This sucker could go down”
~ G W Shrub
Adam
November 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
The Economist endorsed Obama. Why would they do that if Obama is so terrible for the economy?
Finn McCool (The System isn't Broken; It's Fixed)
November 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
I hope someone offers Geithner a load of cash and Obama has to hire someone else.
Get Real
November 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Regardless of whether one perceives this news as good, bad or otherwise 99.9% of folks have long since made up their mind. It will all come down to voter turn out…
Williebkind
November 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Who are the Dixie Chicks?
TaxPayer
November 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
The Republican 2010 jobs campaign — flat since day one. Obama: 157,000 jobs/month created. Republican jobs campaign: Zero jobs created and holding.
YouLibs
November 2nd, 2012
10:25 am
DownInthatlittletown next to DoeRun
I hear ya, bro. Who cares about those stupid grapes, anyway? They’re sour as hell.
Adam
November 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Who are the Dixie Chicks?
You would know if the Republicans hadn’t become the divisive party over the past 12 years.
Morality?
November 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Air heads and brain dead zombies vote Obama. Let the gub’ment think for you ’cause you are to dumb to think for yourself. If that describes you then definitely vote Obama. Let the gub’ment run your life from the cradle to the grave……….. one little problem though and I hate to bring it up – the gub’ment is $16,000,000,000,000 past broke and that check you get in the mail will be soon rejected for insufficient funds. That’s right – even the gub’ment ain’t God. Only God can create the miracle that can get you out of this mess if you vote 4 more years of this failure back in to office. So if you vote Obama/Pelosi start praying for a miracle.
kayaker 71
November 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Pennypacker, 10:12,
If you include all of Romney’s sure, probable and leaning, Rasmussen has him at 206 EV. According to Rasmussen, which Bookman touted yesterday as reliable, the swing states of CO, FL, IA, NH, OH, VA, and WI are toss ups, a total of 95 EV. Carrying only FL, OH, WI, NH and CO will push him over the top. PA is still in play as well as MI and MN, although they are leaning to Bozo. I really feel that there are a whole bucket full of “probable” Bozo voters that will jump ship and vote for Romney. I think that Romney will take every swing state in play plus PA or MI or both. You might say that this is pie in the sky thinking but I do not. Bozo and his stooges are in big trouble with the electorate. They are not happy campers. A swing of just 5-8% of black voters to Romney will devastate Bozo. Same with Latinos. I just don’t believe the media. Too much liberal fluff and not enough facts. I could be wrong…. we will see next Tuesday. I think we have a Romney win at the least…. the extra 50 EV will be icing on the cake.
Georgia
November 2nd, 2012
10:26 am
Trump dangled the Sandy victims in front of his five million dollar offer to Obama. Maybe the #1 issue in this election should be our lost sense of shame. It’s toast. The lower we sink, the more we tune in. Trump’s recent tweets are common He’s also promoting his new season of Apprentice. I saw a preview. Here’s some of it: “Okay, The fake stool sample industry is the fastest growing industry in the fraternity prank market. Your project is to leave fake stool samples all over New York. The one who closes the most restaurants wins.”
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JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
This sucker could go down. ~George W. Bush, 2008
Ain’t no way in hell this sucker is gonna go down on my watch! ~Barack H. Obama, 2012
I like firing people. ~Mitt the Nitwit, 2012
DownInAlbany
November 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
Get Real
November 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Regardless of whether one perceives this news as good, bad or otherwise 99.9% of folks have long since made up their mind. It will all come down to voter turn out…
You hit the nail on the head. In fact, I’ll venture to say that 100.0% of the folks on this blog have long made up their minds…
TaxPayer
November 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
The Bush Great Recession created 9 million job losses.
Welcome to the Occupation
November 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
Adam: “The Economist endorsed Obama. Why would they do that if Obama is so terrible for the economy?”
I think I saw the other day where in a poll of UK conservatives something like 73% said they’d never vote for one of these loons over here who goes by the name “conservative”. They want no part of them. And I think the Economist endorsements of Obama – in ‘08 and now – are a good measure of that disdain.
What do you think, US conservatives? Do you need no stinkin UK conservative approval? How’s that working for you?
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 2nd, 2012
10:29 am
“No, USinUK, I didn’t. YOU did. See final graph above”
you added that when I wasn’t looking
JamVet
November 2nd, 2012
10:30 am
Morality?, what is your new name gonna be on November 7?
Moronity?
Which actually sounds like a good name for the depraved Donnie Birther’s new TV show!
Jack
November 2nd, 2012
10:31 am
Obama was born and raised in a Marxist, Muslim household and attended a church that preached hatred of whites and America for 20 years. He should never have been elected to the presidency and our only hope for America and its citizens is to remove him from office on Nov. 6th.
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
Dear Oscar @ 10:06, So you would prefer being governed by people with no core beliefs, no rational system of decision-making, and have no particular affection for preservation of individual freedom nor respect for individual responsibility? At least you reject governance by bureaucrats.
USinUK - not very ladylike (and former Girl Scout)
November 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
“I think I saw the other day where in a poll of UK conservatives something like 73% said they’d never vote for one of these loons over here who goes by the name “conservative””
are you kidding – the majority of people (conservative and liberal alike) think Mitt makes W look like a Mensa candidate
Joe Hussein Mama
November 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
K71 — “According to Rasmussen, which Bookman touted yesterday as reliable”
Guess you just take Rasmussen as reliable because they agree with you. Actually, you should be looking into their policies.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2012/Info/rasmussen.html
“I really feel that there are a whole bucket full of “probable” Bozo voters that will jump ship and vote for Romney.”
Faith-based polling! LOL!
“I think that Romney will take every swing state in play plus PA or MI or both. You might say that this is pie in the sky thinking but I do not.”
Yes, but you trust those snake-oil salesmen in Colorado, so I think the pie is beating you two falls out of three.
“Same with Latinos. I just don’t believe the media.”
How many Hispanics do you actually know well enough to discuss politics with them? I’m married to one.
ad
November 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
What’s Romney’s plan for adding those 12 million new jobs? The big food companies and big agriculture don’t want the food stamp program cut, because that costs them jobs and profits (mainly profits). Romney has wish-washed all over the place on which parts of Obamacare he’d keep and which parts he’d get rid of. Not sure whether it would help with jobs – how bad did Romneycare hurt Mass? Yes, he’s said he’ll build more ships for the Navy – that’ll add a few jobs, but doesn’t do much to help the American infrastructure needs, like bridges, roads, etc. I’m sure he’ll allow more drilling and mining on public lands – he’ll owe that to the Koch’s. Of course, people manufacturing pollution control equipment may lose their jobs and, if you live near one of the areas affected, your drinking water may burst into flames. That’s be cool.
UNCLE SAMANTHA
November 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
TIE
269 Obama
269 Romney
Romney wins 28 – 22 when the house votes!
ragnar danneskjold
November 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
Dear Pennypacker @ 10:08, Obama chose his words carefully – he did not actually say he had read Atlas Shrugged.
Oscar
November 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
Adam
November 2nd, 2012
10:21 am
The Economist endorsed Obama. Why would they do that if Obama is so terrible for the economy?
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They would not if he was worse for the economy than Romney. Their veiw is that Romney and the people he would appoint to the cabinet and as his advisors would be much worse.
Ane they are correct.