why did Mitt Romney keep saying the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent when Obama took office？?
Romney keeps saying that when everyone who read news knew the unemployment rate back then was over 10 percent.
How did Romney come up with his 7.8 percent rate?
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It was not over 10%, where did you get that number? Here's the historical rates: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Note that while the rate was 7.8% when Obama took office, that number wasn't actually published until the first Friday in February. At the time of inauguration, the latest number was for December 2008 and was 7.3%