Obama’s jobs problem a historic challenge
WASHINGTON (MCT) — The latest monthly jobs report, showing unemployment rising to 8.2 percent, essentially cinches it: President Obama will be confronting the bleakest economic picture on Election Day of any sitting president since World War II.
Three incumbents were defeated for re-election over that period. Each faced the voters when unemployment exceeded 7 percent. But none had to cope with a jobless rate as high as Obama almost certainly will in November.
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