Does this chart look downward trending to you?

[pokerfan]

It does to repubs....



(Just a chart I put together after hearing yet another idiot complaining that things are worse now than four years ago.)

[Honeycombe8]

1. Talk about GOP spin!!! It looks exactly how Obama & Biden have stated it to be. nt

[pokerfan]

3. Yeah, if you want to fit a straight line to some data

it's best to only use two data points.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. what are these numbers?

[pokerfan]

4. "Total nonfarm private payroll employment"

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/adp-employment-report-133000-private-sector-jobs-may-2012

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I know the trajectory up is impressive, but didn't think it was that perfect on the up side.

Thought we had an upward peak and then lower numbers in the spring slump

[pokerfan]

6. It was intended to be illustrative

of the "worse than four years ago crowd" at Fox that takes two data points starting with the instant Obama took office and then using it to claim that things are getting worse.

[former9thward]

7. You are thinking of the jobs added each month.

The OP chart shows the total number of non-farm private jobs. It leaves out government jobs. The jobs added number has been going up since Sept 2010 but recently has gone down although still positive. http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=CE_cesbref1

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. Thanks f9w ! I need people to tell me what I was thinking. LOL

If I ruled the campaign world, I would have charts like this one on every single commercial

[lonestarnot]

8. K & R!

They asked me that in one of their troll phone robo calls yesterday. I lied my ass off to them and wasted some more of their money. Told them I was a repig too. LMAO. Bout choked my fucking self!

[pokerfan]

9. Yeah, if you say things have been getting better since 2010

you're accused of 'cherry picking' the data.

[reformist2]

10. Blaming Obama for 2009 job losses is so dishonest, but it is something we have hit back on.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

13. that's another point...if I ruled the campaign world...I would have the clip - MSNBC

showed - think it might have been Rev Al (he has great clip researchers) of Bush, speaking to the nation on the gravity of the economic situation. Forget us reminding everyone - but from the horse's mouth.

[pokerfan]

14. That's why a picture is worth a thousand words

By comparing today with four years ago is using just two data points and not providing the entire picture. It's lying with statistics. Speaking of pictures...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. very good point PF. Thanks. +1