Thursday Open Thread [4.26.12]
Notice the divergence at the end. The UK and the Eurozone are stagnant, even declining back into recession, because they are pursing the Republican policy of severe austerity. That is what will happen to us if we elect Mitt Romney and a Republican Congress. A return to recession.
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Fox News): Obama 46, Romney 46
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Gallup Tracking): Obama 49, Romney 43
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Princeton Survey Research/National Journal): Obama 47, Romney 39
NATIONAL–PRESIDENT (Rasmussen Tracking): Romney 49, Obama 44
ARIZONA–PRESIDENT (Behavior Research Center): Obama 42, Romney 40
COLORADO–PRESIDENT (Purple Strategies): Obama 47, Romney 47
FLORIDA–PRESIDENT (Purple Strategies): Romney 47, Obama 45
NEW MEXICO–PRESIDENT (PPP): Obama 54, Romney 40
OHIO–PRESIDENT (Purple Strategies): Obama 49, Romney 44
VIRGINIA–PRESIDENT (Purple Strategies): Obama 48, Romney 46
VIRGINIA–PRESIDENT (Rasmussen): Romney 45, Obama 44
ARIZONA–SENATOR (Anzalone Liszt for Carmona): Jeff Flake (R) 43, Richard Carmona (D) 39
TEXAS–SENATOR (PPP): David Dewhurst (R) 49, Paul Sadler (D) 35; Dewhurst 50, Sean Hubbard (D) 35; Ted Cruz (R) d. Sadler (44-34); Cruz d. Hubbard (43-33); Ted Leppert (R) d. Sadler (44-33); Leppert d. Hubbard (44-34); Craig James (R) d. Sadler (40-36); James d. Hubbard (41-35)
TEXAS–SENATOR–REPUBLICAN PRIMARY (PPP): David Dewhurst 38, Ted Cruz 26, Tom Leppert 8, Craig James 7
WISCONSIN–GOVERNOR–DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY (Paul Maslin for Falk): Tom Barrett 40, Kathleen Falk 32
Parents – the deadline to choice to Dickinson High School has been extended to June 30, 2012. There’s a choice open-house at Dickinson this Sunday from 2:00 – 4:30. It’s not too late to consider Dickinson for next fall, with its new STEM Academy and International Baccalaureate programs.
A high up Republican guy is running for school board in Middletown. His name is Andy Cherry. Knows nothing about education. His kids not gone a day to school in the district. Never set foot in one of our schools yet he has all the answers and wants to talk bad about our schools and our teachers. School board should be about the children not some wannabe politician on an ego trip. Who is paying for all those ugly signs littering the highways? It sure isn’t him he lives on Cole Boulevard! And worse he has no class he even put a huge ugly sign right in front of an opponent’s neighborhood to try and intimidate her. So please turn out & vote. Pop this Cherry on May 8th!
How do new jobless claims “decline” while going up? It’s the magic of Obamanomics.
As fellow listeners to NPR may have noted this morning, for the last several weeks, the MSM continues to report that new jobless claims are “declining”. Hey – good news right?
But in each case it’s because the last set of numbers has been revised up. So even though this week’s numbers are higher than the last report, they are reported by Obama’s MSM lapdogs as a “decline.”
Today’s numbers according to Bloomberg:
Quote:”Jobless claims fell by 1,000 to 388,000 in the week ended April 21 from a revised 389,000 the prior period that was the highest since early January, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-0…last-week.html
Except the reported figure for the prior period was 386,000, not 389,000.
And that 386,000 itself was reported as a “decline” only because prior figures had been revised up from 380,000 to 388,000. See here:
Quote:The number of Americans filing requests for jobless benefits fell last week by 2,000 to 386,000, the Labor Department said Thursday, keeping claims at a four-month high.
Claims from two weeks ago were revised up to 388,000 from an initial reading of 380,000.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/busines…GqGQ7n8DSNyMML
Funny how the last period’s figures get revised upward just enough to make this period’s reported figure a “decline.” The good news for the economy just keeps on rolling in.
The four week average, however, can’t hide the trend: “The four-week moving average, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figures, climbed to 381,750 last week, the highest since Jan. 7, from 375,500”
Who else smells a rat? This is the work of the same Department of Labor that has posters of Secretary Hilda Solis marching with Sharpton and Jackson in government elevators.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for Zero’s cheerleaders to look into this.
HEy Everyone – I will do this if you all will be my supporters
http://www.firstgiving.com/overtheedgede/over-the-edge-2012
lets show ’em how the liberal/progressives do it and challenge the cnservatives to match our donations
it for a good cause
let me know what you think….
Hate to say it but Rocky may have a point. Of course, nobody should delude themselves that new jobless claims are a strong indicator of anything, other than it’s bad when they go up. I don’t think there’s any trickery going on; it’s just that you have to understand how this particular metric works.
If people were getting jobs, they’d be buying houses. But they’re not.
Did you ever stop to think that Cherry’s sign is more for the benefit of the Charter school parents rather than an intimidation tactic toward his opponent? She’s giving herself too much credit.