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Although the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September, Mitt Romney is not planning to give up one of his favorite talking points - that the United States saw "43 straight months with unemployment above 8 percent" under the Obama presidency.
After it was announced on Friday that the unemployment fell below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years, Mitt Romney struggled to come up with a new way to talk about the jobless numbers.
He first tried to blame the drop in the rate on "the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work" - an inaccurate assessment.
Then, he shifted his focus to a new number - 11 percent.
'If the...participation of our adults in the workforce were the same as at the time (Obama) got elected, why our unemployment rate would be about 11 percent," Romney said while campaigning in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Friday evening, almost 12 hours after the new unemployment rate was announced.
But neither argument seemed to resonate quite as strongly as the old talking point, and so Romney decided to bring it back...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162...ld-8-percent-unemployment-rate-talking-point/
After it was announced on Friday that the unemployment fell below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years, Mitt Romney struggled to come up with a new way to talk about the jobless numbers.
He first tried to blame the drop in the rate on "the fact that more and more people have just stopped looking for work" - an inaccurate assessment.
Then, he shifted his focus to a new number - 11 percent.
'If the...participation of our adults in the workforce were the same as at the time (Obama) got elected, why our unemployment rate would be about 11 percent," Romney said while campaigning in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Friday evening, almost 12 hours after the new unemployment rate was announced.
But neither argument seemed to resonate quite as strongly as the old talking point, and so Romney decided to bring it back...
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162...ld-8-percent-unemployment-rate-talking-point/