Falling unemployment rates in swing states may not help Obama: pollster Larry Sabato
October 20, 2012
Unemployment rates fall in most swing states. Why that may not help Obama.
The state-by-state unemployment numbers, released Friday, held some encouraging news for President Obama and his reelection prospects, with the jobless rate dropping in September in seven of nine electoral battleground states and rising in none. But because the rate remains relatively high in many…