SO I ASK WHERE IS HARRY REID ON THIS ??????????????/
Nevada is in the toughest economic shape by far, with a 12.1 percent unemployment rate. Florida (10.6 percent) and Michigan (10.3 percent) have double-digit jobless rates, while North Carolina’s 9.7 percent keeps it slightly above the national average.
Those four states will account for 66 electoral votes in 2012. Both parties are likely to target 10 states that have unemployment rates below the national average — Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. Those states have a total of 106 electoral votes.
Both Ohio and Colorado had an unemployment rate of 8.6 percent in May, just half a point below the national average. Wisconsin and Pennsylvania each stood at 7.4 percent. Those four states will reward a total of 57 electoral votes in 2012, more than enough to cost Obama the presidency if he lost them and the states mentioned above.
Second, in each of the 14 swing states, the unemployment rate has risen from where it stood in October 2008 — just a month before he beat Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to claim the presidency. The increases range from marginal — just a 0.7-point jump in Minnesota and New Hampshire — to the nearly catastrophic in places such as Nevada (up 4.4 points) and Florida (up 3.6).
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