Jobless Rate Trampled Democrats’ Hopes, Obama’s Change Agenda
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The election that delivered control of the U.S. House of Representatives to Republicans was awash in numbers -- incumbents ousted, hundreds of millions in secret money, President Barack Obama’s 45 percent approval rating.
Yet the story of the victory could be told with one number: the 9.6 percent U.S. unemployment rate.