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Unemployment in March was 20 percent higher in so-called "blue states" won by Democratic candidate Barack Obama in last fall's presidential election than in "red states" won by Republican candidate John McCain, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
If unemployment numbers in the blue states do not begin improving soon, the Democratic Party may start expressing concerns about 2010 mid-term election losses in both governor races and in Congress, many political observers say.
Drawing causal conclusions from these data are difficult.
-- WorldNetDaily
Apparently grammar doesn't come all that easily either. What a joke box WND is. And over on the math side, to derive their Red-Blue totals, they just added up the rates for the states and then divided by the total number of states. Fourth graders know not to do that...
Best spin of the day, and completely wrong. California comes to mind, and their big bailout..
Yeah no kidding!
I guess not thinking about the question is most of the problem and their confusion with the truth. they have the incessant need to besmirch the right even if it is the left doing it!
Blue states may have higher unemployment because they recieve fewer government subsidies and less corporate and farm welfare.
Well, no. More likely, is that the aggregate and median level of education/skills in the so-called "blue states" are lower than in the more educated parts of the country. They are disposable workers with disposable skills.
Well, no. More likely, is that the aggregate and median level of education/skills in the so-called "blue states" are lower than in the more educated parts of the country. They are disposable workers with disposable skills.
b-b-b-b-b-ut they've got Harvard and Yale. Surely there's a huge market for Wall St. paper pushers and MBAs?
Blue states may have higher unemployment because they recieve fewer government subsidies and less corporate and farm welfare.
What about TX? TX has added more jobs in the past year than all other states combined.
TX is also one of the 17 donor states (one of the states that sends more money to Washington than it gets back). That's correct - 17 out of 50. Texas works with California, New York, and the other donor states to support the other 33.
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