Quote Originally Posted by .blank cd View Post
None of them are CURRENTLY trying to be president, and if you look again, you'll see I removed Kerry from your quote. ;-)


I referenced exactly how they came to the UE numbers they posted, in the other thread.

US jobless rate falls to 7.8 pct., 44-month low

This says they ran a poll of Americans pretty much asking them if they had a job or not, with a pretty significant sample size. As long as they are consistent with their data collection method and data comparisons (I.e. they used the same method throughout the term) then I see no problem in using that figure as a reference.

That is a very small amount of people to sample compared to the number of people in the US. Its a much smaller percentage than the economist poll that IA Obama supporters wanted to ignore. Seems that Obama supporters have a lot of difficulty holding everyone to the same standards yet they want to claim that they are looking for fairness all the time.

As to the numbers I suspect that they are correct. Plenty of people that used to have high paying full time jobs have been forced to take part time low pay jobs to survive and the reports have noted that for quite a while.