The same can be said of New Mexico, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa,
Pennsylvania...and your own state of Maryland. All of those went to Gore in
2000, and any one of those could swing towards Bush this time.

Kerry didn't have a particularly strong showing several of those states.


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On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 02:28:25 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


What is Kerry or Edwards going to do to get 2,000,000-3,000,000
new
jobs?

Why set the bar so high? Bush lost 3,000,000 jobs on his watch.

No he didn't. That number is a lie. First of all, if you use the
flawed
Payroll Data Survey, that number is only 2.4 million...not 3
million.
However, if you use the more accurate Household Data survey,
there
was
a
net
*GAIN* in jobs under Bush.


Ahhh...time for the NewsMax bullship alert again...whoop, whoop,
whoop!

Bull****, eh? Let's look at facts from bls.gov:

Average unemployment rate (1st three years of Presidency):

Clinton: 6.2%
Bush: 5.5%

Unemployment rate on January of each President's fourth year in
office:

Clinton: 7.3% in January 1994
Bush: 6.3% in January 2004



4 years in office would be 1996 for Clinton and I believe (I did not
check)
the unemployment rate was 6.6%.'

You're right. My mistake.

Bush: 6.3% (January 2004)
Clinton: 6.3% (January 1996)



Bush isn't playing well in Ohio. You realize that if Bush carries all
the states he carried in 2000 but one, and Kerry carries all the states
Gore carried in 2000, and Kerry carries Ohio, Bush is...gone.