Simple: The Dems ran Washington virtually unopposed FOR TWO YEARS. Remind what unemployment was in 2009 and 2010 again.
Of course, you would also have to explain why the Dems got the daylights beaten out of them in 2010. And, that's not just in the House and Senate. Look at the state races and gubernatorial races.
Not to mention:
By Mitchell Landsberg
July 18, 2012, 2:06 p.m.
Mitt Romney observed this week that he was beginning to see a pattern: States with Republican governors are doing better in terms of job creation than those with Democrats at the helm.
"I have to tell you," he told donors at a fundraiser in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, "I'm overwhelmingly optimistic about the future of jobs ... and income growth in America if we apply the policies that Republican governors are putting in practice right now."
Romney has a point: Of the states whose unemployment rate is below the national average of 8.2%, most are run by Republican governors.
However, this is also true: Of the states whose unemployment rate is above the national average, more are run by Republicans than Democrats.....
Overall, of the states whose unemployment rate was below the national average in May, the last month for which figures are available, 21 have Republican governors and 13 have Democratic governors.
It is also true, however, that seven of the 14 states that were above the national average are run by Republican governors, including Brian Sandoval of Nevada, whose state has the second lowest tax burden in the country but tops the national unemployment list with a rate of 11.6%.
Six of the 14 above-average states are run by Democrats, including California's Jerry Brown.
The fact there are far more states with below-average than above-average unemployment rates may hint at one of the dynamics in play: The highest jobless rates tend to be in large urban states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, California and Florida. Of those six states, three are run by Republicans and three by Democrats. They also tend to be among the states with the highest per capita incomes, despite their high unemployment.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-notes-better-job-creation-in-states-with-republican-governors-20120718,0,6164326.storyOf course, you also fail to mention (what a shock
), that a lot of red states that have high unemployment have cities/counties that are extremely poor that also vote heavily for Democrats.
