[StAnDeliver]

Just reviewing this thread, I can't help but notice the 'woe-is-US' crew pimping Obama are almost all Blue Sstaters. Not saying you all are trolls, just saying you all got Zero perspective because you're surrounded by the enemy. They will mislead you...

No post-WWII president in the modern era has ever been re-elected with unemployment at 9%. Or 8%. Or 7.5%.

7.7% beat Ford. 7.5% (helped) beat Carter. 7.4% beat Bush I.

There is Zero chance Bobo can get unemployment under 8% by Election Day. Even if he did manage 8.1% or 8.2%, the largest entrenched unemployment/underemployment in the modern era is going to knock him out.

[ScottinVA]

No post-WWII president in the modern era has ever been re-elected with unemployment at 9%. Or 8%. Or 7.5%.

Right, but it's a different era now. If the dems frame all this around the narrative, "Imagine how difficult things would be if Obama didn't win in 2008" -- which is quite possible, those numbers won't matter. We're not dealing with a particularly well-informed, well-reasoned electorate.