http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showt...perpage=6&highlight=unemployment&pagenumber=2 tend to clutch at numbers -7.5 % "Do the math" must categorize everything into the win or loss column -under 7.5 unemployment win,over 7.5 lose because of the inability to originate a thought not already originated by someone else http://seekingalpha.com/article/277...rate-to-the-outcome-of-presidential-elections Not Yet Useful to Correlate the Unemployment Rate to the Outcome of Presidential Elections I keep hearing the ominous statistic that no sitting U.S. president has ever won an election with unemployment over 7.2%. I finally decided to look more closely at the numbers after I read another version of this statistic that said no U.S. president since the 1930s has ever won an election with unemployment over 7.2%. There are several things which made me suspicious of these numbers: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/business/economy/02jobs.html?pagewanted=all Employment Data May Be the Key to the Presidentâs Job WASHINGTON â No American president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has won a second term in office when the unemployment rate on Election Day topped 7.2 percent.