Map in Newsweek: Joblessness is up in all but three states.

[Skinner]

Anyone catch that map in the middle of Newsweek this week? I tried to find it on the Newsweek website, but they don't seem to have it there. I'm working from home, so I don't have access to a scanner.

The title is "Jobs lost: 2.3 Million". The map shows the entire United States, the unemployment rate in each state, and an arrow indicating whether joblessness increased or decreased in the last three years. It's a sea of up arrows -- 47 states and the District of Columbia have had an increase in joblessness. The other three are Montana (4.5%, down), Louisiana (5.8%, down), and Hawaii (4.2%, unchanged). If anyone has a copy of the map, you should post it here. It's stunning.

This administration is vulnerable. If you ever find yourself feeling like the Democrats don't have a chance this year, you should dig up a copy of this map and look at it. Barring some big change, this will be the first administration since Herbert Hoover to lose jobs during the first term.

[barbaraann]

1. The difference between Bush and Hoover

is that, IMHO, Bush KNEW jobs were going to be lost, and Hoover didn't. I think Bush wants millions of MORE jobs to be lost, too.

[denverbill]

4. No.

The differences between Bush and Hoover are:
1) Hoover was brilliant. Bush is a moron.
2) Hoover actually cared about the unemployed because he was a self-made man. He wasn't born with a silver-spoon in his nose like Shrub.

[saltpoint]

2. Thank you for posting this, Skinner --

-- because it is what will sweep Bush out of DC.

We're sad because it means good people don't have good jobs, but it demonstrates the Democratic argument that Bush doesn't give a damn about working people or middle & lower income people.

I think we should all try to hunt down a copy of Newsweek tonight, cut out the map, and post it at our grocery store on the "free ads" 3X5s.

Democrats win in November.

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edit: language against Bush not strong enough / amended.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Remember Al Gore's speech from 1996 (I think)?

Under Bush*, everything that should be down is up, and everything that should be up is down...or so it seems.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. The unemployed have left those states to.............

find work elsewhere. Montana is certainly not the bastion of great jobs.
Also just curious, I wonder what the education levels are in those states?

[GainesT1958]

6. Thanks for the "heads-up" on this one, SKINNER!

To me, this is the biggest single factor that's going to do Dub in next fall--no major job gains, no election victory. Iraq could turn out quite well (of course, that's not in the cards, either, but even if it DID... ) and James Carville's maxim would STILL hold fast!

How desperate are they? Well, Greg Mankiw's recent foibles--including his latest proposal to classify "McJobs" as manufacturing jobs(!) that you all noted in the "Top Ten" this week--reveal both the Administration's cluelessness on the economic front, and their desperation in handling the issue for (re)election purposes.

No wonder they're going to use that $250 million war chest of theirs for all attack ads, all the time--and they're having to START THEM a lot earlier than they'd originally planned, too! :eyes:

B-)

[chookie]

7. Gujarat, Hyderabad and Maharastra

Employment is way up in these states.

Oh -- you mean American states? :-)

I agree -- this administration is vulnerable. I believe the majority of Americans have caught on to what is going on, and the "Who do you believe, me or your own eyes?" stuff isn't going to work anymore. Unless there is more tampering with voting, he will lose by even a greater number than he did the last time -- and not even Antonin and Clarence are going to be able to save him.

Even his beloved war issue has turned against him.

I even doubt if he could get people behind him on the scale of post-Sept 11, should they be tempted to try it again.

i think his only option is widescale voter fraud and election tampering.

[symbolman]

8. What about those that have

fallen off the Un-employment register - gone beyond their allotted payments.. do they even COUNT them?

I recall that was one of the big misuses of the UnEmployment numbers during the Reagan years to fool folks..

I think the other Issue that Dems need to bang like a Drum, the BIG TENT issue is the LACK OF CREDIBILITY - the fact that Bush is a LIAR -- Joe Sixpack can fall in line right behind that..

Remember folks, you can Xerox maps like Skinner has mentioned and leave them Public places, like in Laundromats, Coffee shops, etc..

thanks for all you do Skinner,

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