Brit Hume: Unfortunately for Mr. Obama, he and his team made some extravagant predictions about the effect of their stimulus spend fest, claiming that it would keep the unemployment rate from ever getting above eight percent. It is now nearly 9.5 percent, and climbing. Make no mistake about it: The most sensitive economic indicator in political terms is always the unemployment rate. People sometimes don’t feel good about the economy when the unemployment rate is low, but they never feel good about it when it is high.
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