Oh, sure! Why have jobless claims jumped sharply, right AFTER the elections?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101104/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_jobless_claims
Applications for jobless aid rise sharply
"The number of people seeking jobless benefits jumped sharply last week, after two straight weeks of declines.

"The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment aid rose by 20,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000 for the week ending Oct. 30. Wall Street analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had expected a smaller rise."

Gee, what if this came out just before the elections?

Would Harry Reid have lost re-election?

Would the GOP have gained more seats in the Senate, possibly a majority?

Do you think the earlier jobless numbers were doctored to benefit the Democrat regime?

Answer 1

why has oil jumped up over night and gas prices went up .20 a gallon since yesterday morning......

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The democrats held up the count from the labor department, hoping for better news, and certainly not wanting the bad news to affect the elections. With the beat down they took it wouldn't have mattered much. Harry would have held, and the fact that he was in trouble in the first place with a candidate such as Angle is telling enough. The democrats policy has failed, it's obvious to a huge majority of Americans, and now it is time to roll up our sleeves and get these people back to work. The democrats have to play nicely with the republicans now, the people have spoken, if they want to continue to ignore the republicans they will lose the senate and the Presidency in 2012 by even a bigger margin. As if this beat down wasn't bad enough.

Answer 4

I'm still waiting for the job my local republican House candidate promised me. he said "vote for me Nov 2 and I guarantee you'll have a job the day after election results are posted"





I'm pretty excited, this Christmas is going to be a good Christmas for my kids.

Answer 5

All the "temporary poll workers" hired before the election to inflate employment numbers are now out of work again. Thank the dems and Obama for this one.

Answer 6

These numbers are available each and every thursday. No one bothered to access them.

Would have been a good tool to use. But someone was asleep at the switch, to bad.

Answer 7

The answer is simple, a lot of Democrat Congressional staff members are now unemployed.

Answer 8

Confidence in the US econony just took at major hit with the Republicans in control of the House of Representative and so there have been large scale lay offs.

Answer 9

wait, things are about to get worse as you rely again on that "trickle down"