[skr]

Even Democratic economists are saying that it takes a year after a recession ends for jobs to increase. The recession ended last March. IBM just announced that it was hiring something like 14,000 people, 5,000 of which will be here in the States.

The financial cycle neither starts nor stops on a dime.

[Sofa King]

And, naturally, it takes the public 1-2 years to catch on to what is happening. Algore was able to run on the economy even though it was headed south because it had only been heading south for 6 months; not long enough for most people to catch on.