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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I think the average American is going to look at their personal situation and factor that in a lot more than what some government bean counter says. The economy is slowly getting better, but to someone who's still out of work and has been for the past two years, they're less likely to be of that opinion. Personal experience is a much more vivid and real thing to people than some abstract numbers and figures, thus we're more apt to believe it. That's why politicians always have some little story about "Mary in Virginia" or "Jim in Vermont" rather than charts and graphs (unless it's Ross Perot.)
So I'm not sure how much this report's going to sway someone.
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Very true
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