Reflections From a Murky Pond

The jobless rate has dropped approximately 50% faster and further in states that elected Republican leadership in the 2010 elections than the national average. In the 17 states that elected fiscally-conservative, tea party-supported GOP Governors unemployment dropped 1.35% vs. the 0.9% national average.

• Alabama – 9.3% to 7.4% (-1.9%)
• Florida – 10.9% to 8.6% (-2.3%)
• Georgia – 10.1% to 8.9% (-1.2%)
• Iowa – 6.1% to 5.1% (-1.0%)
• Kansas – 6.9% to 6.1% (-0.8%)
• Maine – 8.0% to 7.4%  (-0.6%)
• Michigan – 10.9% to 8.5% (-2.4%)
• Nevada – 13.8% to 11.6% (-2.2%)
• New Mexico – 7.7% to 6.7% (-1.0%)
• Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% (-1.7%)
• Oklahoma – 6.2% to 4.8% = (-1.4%)
• Pennsylvania – 8.0% to 7.4% (-0.6%)
• South Carolina – 10.6% to 9.1% (-1.5%)
• South Dakota – 5.0% to 4.3% (-0.7%)
• Tennessee – 9.5% to 7.9% (-1.6%)
• Wisconsin – 7.7% to 6.8% (-0.9%)
• Wyoming – 6.3% to 5.2% (-1.1%)

On thing to bear in mind, however, is that this represent correlation; it does not, at face value, represent causation. Many factors play into unemployment statistics and this is only evidence – strong evidence, admittedly – that Republican leadership is better at fixing America’s number one problem, unemployment, than the profligate spenders of the Democratic Party. It is not proof per se.

Also, these figures are based upon official unemployment numbers and those are more political fiction than reality. For all we know from this analysis it may be that a larger than average number of the jobless may have just fallen off the roles into uncounted limbo, just as a large percentage of the official average nation drop of 0.9% is made up of these poor, lost souls.

It deserves serious thought though as we go into the 2012 elections. Prima facie evidence from these 17 states certainly suggests that the GOP is the right choice for anyone wanting the economy to turn around in a reasonable time-frame.

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I, for one, would have preferred a better set of choices – or, at least, a real choice – but the Establishment and Lamestream Media prevent that coming to pass – as the nature of the Republican Primary debates clearly showed.

Ah well…Like all Americans, I’ll hold my nose and try to vote Obama out – but I’ll keeps stocking up on ammo and other needful supplies.

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