Go back to September and October 2012 and there are all the usual suspects in the MSM claiming that the misreporting was a baseless conspiracy.
Add on to that that California failed to properly report initial jobless claims during the entire Septmeber to October 2012 run up to the election, skewing that BLS measure also.
california initial jobless claims glitches 2012
http://www.newsmax.com/Economy/jobless-claims-labor-employment/2012/10/11/id/459559
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/18/statistical-anomaly-corrected-jobless-claims-explode/
This proves that when they need “glitches”, they make glitches. Just like the “glitches” they’ve been needing lately with the obamacare website.