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Excellent: All GOP Governors Elected in 2010 Reduced Unemployment

will_8080 Wrote: Jul 08, 2012 3:08 PM

This is why Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal are so frustrated with Mitt Romney. Even Bill Kristol went off on Romney on Fox News Sunday. Kristol said Romney doesn't articulate a plan for the economy and Obama is "holding his own" in the polls. For such a "disastrous" democratic president, a GOP contender should be leading in the polls, to say the least. Yet, here's Real Clear Politics. One tie (Rasmussen) and Obama is leading in every poll. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

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Excellent: All GOP Governors Elected in 2010 Reduced Unemployment

Some awesome news: all 17 states that elected a Republican governor in 2010 has seen a reduction in their unemployment levels. In just over a year and a half since those new executives took office, these states have seen some serious improvement:

Kansas - 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%

Maine - 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%

Michigan - 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%

New Mexico - 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%

Oklahoma - 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%
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