today’s KisP fun facts

…Since January of 2011, here is how much the unemployment rate declined in each of the 17 states that elected Republican governors in 2010…

Kansas – 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8 [percentage points (11.6 percent)]

Maine – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6 [percentage points (7.5 percent)]

Michigan – 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of [2.4 percentage points (22 percent)]

New Mexico – 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (13 percent)]

Oklahoma – 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of [1.4 percentage points - (22.6 percent)]

Pennsylvania – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of [.6 percentage points (7.5 percent)]

Tennessee – 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of [1.6 percentage points (16.8 percent)]

Wisconsin – 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of [0.9 percentage points (11.9 percent)]

Wyoming – 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of [1.1 percentage points (17.5 percent)]

Alabama – 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of [1.9 percentage points (20.4 percent)]

Georgia – 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of [1.2 percentage points (11.9 percent)]

South Carolina – 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of [1.5 percentage points (14.2 percent)]

South Dakota – 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of [0.7 percentage points (14 percent)]

Florida – 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of [2.3 percentage points (21 percent)]

Nevada – 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of [2.2 percentage points (15.9 percent)]

Iowa – 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of [1.0 percentage points (16.4 percent)]

Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of [1.7 percentage points (18.9 percent)]

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2 Comments!

  1. dick, not quite dead white guy
    Posted July 9, 2012 at 11:11 am |

    And Captain Bullshit will take credit. And the Stuck on Stupid will believe it and lick his balls vote for him.

  2. mech
    Posted July 9, 2012 at 2:49 pm |

    So conservative governors are more effective than the stimulus program?

    Who’d a thunk?

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