Chris Christie is in

[AK Forty Seven]

Quote from 377OHMS:

Small minds like the one in AK's pointy little head tend to clutch at numbers. He must catagorize everything into the win or loss column because of the inability to originate a thought not already originated by someone else.

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...perpage=6&highlight=unemployment&pagenumber=2

Quote from Maverick74:

No incumbent has ever won the Presidency with unemployment over 7.5%. Do the math.

tend to clutch at numbers -7.5 % "Do the math"



must categorize everything into the win or loss column -under 7.5 unemployment win,over 7.5 lose



because of the inability to originate a thought not already originated by someone else


http://seekingalpha.com/article/277...rate-to-the-outcome-of-presidential-elections

Not Yet Useful to Correlate the Unemployment Rate to the Outcome of Presidential Elections


I keep hearing the ominous statistic that no sitting U.S. president has ever won an election with unemployment over 7.2%. I finally decided to look more closely at the numbers after I read another version of this statistic that said no U.S. president since the 1930s has ever won an election with unemployment over 7.2%. There are several things which made me suspicious of these numbers:



http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/business/economy/02jobs.html?pagewanted=all

Employment Data May Be the Key to the President’s Job

WASHINGTON — No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.

 

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WASHINGTON — No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.

I think that record is still to be beaten.