The other trick in those statistics is that they count anyone who was unemployed for even one day as being unemployed. So, theoretically, you could have had three million people unemployed one day and then have them all find work the next day. This type of reporting quotes this as three million people lost their jobs.
Yep polls are BULL$HIT! Bush will prevail.
Another trick the Poodle uses is that he only uses the establishment survey for his jobs numbers. The establishment survey counts only payroll jobs at large to medium sized companies. It does not count jobs held by people who work as independent contractors such as consulting positions, realators, etc. It also does not count people who are self-employed. The household survey simply asks people if they are employed and thus counts people with jobs that are not counted by the establishment survey. I don't have the data, but I believe that the household survey indicates that there has been a net increase in the number of jobs during the last 4 years.