I saw this over the weekend and thought I’d share this morning… According to an Examiner.com analysis, the 17 states that elected a Republican Governors in 2010 hes seen unemployment drop at an average of 1.35% — well ahead of the national average of .9%.
Here is how much the unemployment has rate declined in each of the 17 states since those newly elected Republican governors took office in January 2011:
Kansas – 6.9% to 6.1% = a decline of 0.8%
Maine – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Michigan – 10.9% to 8.5% = a decline of 2.4%
New Mexico – 7.7% to 6.7% = a decline of 1.0%
Oklahoma – 6.2% to 4.8% = a decline of 1.4%
Pennsylvania – 8.0% to 7.4% = a decline of 0.6%
Tennessee – 9.5% to 7.9% = a decline of 1.6%
Wisconsin – 7.7% to 6.8% = a decline of 0.9%
Wyoming – 6.3% to 5.2% = a decline of 1.1%
Alabama – 9.3% to 7.4% = a decline of 1.9%
Georgia – 10.1% to 8.9% = a decline of 1.2%
South Carolina – 10.6% to 9.1% = a decline of 1.5%
South Dakota – 5.0% to 4.3% = a decline of 0.7%
Florida – 10.9% to 8.6% = a decline of 2.3%
Nevada – 13.8% to 11.6% = a decline of 2.2%
Iowa – 6.1% to 5.1% = a decline of 1.0%
Ohio – 9.0% to 7.3% = a decline of 1.7%
Even if we remove Michigan, Florida, and Nevada which saw the largest deceases in unemployment from the equation, the average drop in the unemployment rate is still 1.14%.
Compare that to the eight states that elected new Democratic governors in 2010:
Colorado – 8.8% to 8.1% = a decline of 0.7%
New York – 8.2% to 8.6% = an increase of 0.4%
Oregon – 9.9% to 8.4% = a decline of 1.5%
California – 12.1% to 10.8% = a decline of 1.3%
Connecticut – 9.3% to 7.8% = a decline of 1.5%
Hawaii – 6.7% to 6.3% = a decline of 0.4%
Minnesota – 6.8% to 5.6% = a decline of 1.2%
Vermont – 6.0% to 4.6% = a decline of 1.4%
Like their Republican counterparts each of these Democrats took office in January 2011, the average drop in the unemployment rate in these states was 0.95%, roughly the same as the drop seen nationally… And it’s worth noting one of these states, New York, has actually seen unemployment rise since January 2011.
I suppose I could be like the President’s economic advisers and say don’t read to much into to this, but I think it argues well for Conservative principles.
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