by laying off workers by the thousands. almost 700,000 total. Our unemployment rate would be 7.4% and Obama would easily win re-election. But its part of their plan to make Obama a one term Prez.

but we're high info voters. too much ignorance in this country and the republicans just love that.

employment numbers adjusted to remove government job number fluctuations.

not enough, but thank you Scuba. mostly what i do is read and comment on DU! must get busier. i generally don't like canvassing because i'm shy but with a fistful of talking points i think i'm ready to go have some conversations.

report came out, the consensus was 100,000 jobs and any drop in unemployment would be a great jobs report.

The job total was just 4,000 shy of the 100,000 total, and unemployment dropped from 8.3 to 8.1 percent.

This is a pretty good jobs report but falls shy of a very good report; it's not not "disappointing" unless you are deliberately trying to undermine the President.

Because it is August. A lot of plants are shut down for parts of the month for vacation, retooling, etc. Seasonal factors influence these numbers making it a lot more complicated than the overly simplistic view of Chuck Todd. Those same seasonal factors also helps to explain why the unemployment rate came down.