Wow! Almost 11,000 job losses in Ohio in August and 5,500 in Missouri. Kerry ought to be able to hammer that point home and bring the race back to even in those states. Ohio is completely dominated by the GOP at the state level so there are no excuses. This is how Republican policy plays out when there are no checks and balances.
"Ohio needs some good news," acknowledged Treasury Secretary John Snow in remarks at a worker retraining roundtable at Hondros College in Westerville, Ohio.I don't know what's more surprising: The White House managing to talk around facts or voters who are oblivious to them.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan, asked if Bush was concerned that Ohio was still losing jobs, said Friday's employment figures "continue to show that the economy is moving forward, and because of the policies that this president has implemented."
