The Spin Machine will need to work overtime again this weekend.
The unemployment rate rose last month in some states considered key to the U.S. presidential election, including Iowa and Nevada, data from the Labor Department showed on Friday.
Overall, unemployment rates were mixed in states across the nation. Jobless rates rose in 26 states in August from July, fell in 12 states and the District of Columbia, and was unchanged in another 12 states.
Compared with last year, jobless rates fell in 42 states, rose in seven and remained the same in one.
Half the battleground states saw an uptick, with Nevada being hit hardest as its rate went above 12%.
The administration is changing its story about Libya every day, new manufacturing numbers show the sector at its lowest point in three years and now this news hits. And the Washington Post says Romney is the one who had a bad week.
Bias? What bias?
Couple more bad weeks like this and Romney will just run away with it.
Somebody must explain to me how Obama could possibly still be ahead in Nevada. What’s decisive factor here? Is it the strength of unions, especially SEIU? Is it the Latino vote? Is it transplanted Californians who simply can’t imagine voting for a Republican?
You know the SEIU represents a whole lotta workers who are suffering in Nevada. Especially workers in the hotels and food services. My hope is it buses in all these workers and Latinos to polls, as it always does, but this time they vote for Romney just to spite the union.
Every time I see Illinois as a Deep Blue on an electoral map, I shake my head in disbelief! Illinois has an unemployment rate of 9.10 higher than the national average. Chicago’s unemployment rate 10.6.
Illinois has the highest foreclosure rate in August 2012, one in every 298 housing units. Of the 17,781 Illinois homes that received a foreclosure notice last month, 91 percent of them were located in the Chicago area. It’s quasi-swing state!