Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111102:16:48:00
Echoes what happened so many years ago, roosevelt was re-elected twice with unemployment moving in on 17%. so a jobless threshold on re-electability may not be the best measure necessarily. logically it should be the difference in unemployed when a president starts and then at re-election later on. that might be logical, but not empirical. three examples for you of higher unemployment at re-election, george w. bush, then richard nixon and dwight d. eisenhower. all were re-elected despite worsening unemployment so tying unemployment to re-electability is tough says the "new york times" nate sil...