Originally Posted by raymor

The headline unemployment number sucks slightly less, but while 120,000 were hired, 330,000 more gave up looking. Real unemployment therefore got worse by 210,000. The headline number is one thing, but the millions of unemployed people, including the 330,00 who just now gave up looking, know it just keeps getting worse.

Also, wages fell by 1.5% last month, an annualized reduction in wages of 18%. When even the people who have jobs see their pay falling by 18% per year while Obama gives billions to his buddies, they know what's going on. Voters aren't THAT clueless.