Unemployment

Unemployment Figures Show Economy Continues To Falter

Brian Beutler | October 8, 2010, 8:37AM

President Barack Obama

New employment statistics released by the federal government this morning continue to show anemic job growth, with 64,000 new private sector jobs unable to offset the loss of 159,000 state government and Census jobs.

The figures show the unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent and 14.8 million Americans remain unemployed.

The numbers track closely with the estimates of independent experts, who predicted this week that the economy would continue to limp along.

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WA-SEN

Demon Sheep Ad Guru Targets Patty Murray: She's Walking All Over Us! (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 13, 2010, 11:09AM

A new ad the American Action Network attacking Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).

Fred Davis, the GOP ad guru who brought you that John McCain "Celebrity" ad in 2008 and Carly Fiorina's internet sensation, the Demon-Sheep, is aiming his talents at new target: Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).

Politico's Jonathan Martin reports that Phelps has created a new TV ad for the conservative American Action Network that will run statewide in Washington soon. As Martin writes, the ad -- which shows a woman walking over the backs of three people, one of them a child -- plays on Murray's political past:

The commercial, like many spots against Democratic incumbents, aims to make the case that Murray has forgotten her roots. But it's notably personalized through the use of tennis shoes, a play on Murray's 1992 mantra that she was a common-sense "mom in tennis shoes."

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AZ-SEN

The New Demon Sheep? McCain Video Bashes Hayworth For Believing In Dracula

Rachel Slajda | April 12, 2010, 3:44PM

A still from McCain's web video

In a new web video, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) paints his primary challenger J.D. Hayworth as a birth-certificate-searching, horse-marriage-fearing, Dracula-believing whackadoo.

Hayworth, a former congressman, is mounting a challenge from the right and attacking McCain as overly moderate. Although Hayworth is still lagging in the polls, he could give McCain a serious run for his money.

The video, using clips from the Lion King and Mars Attacks, says Hayworth considers the "most pressing challenges" to be President Obama's birthplace, interspecies marriage and whether Dracula is real. Also, martians.

Watch:

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CA-SEN

DeVore Campaign Gimmick: 'Demon Sheep Hunting Spree'

Eric Kleefeld | March 1, 2010, 3:54PM

A still from Fiorina's "FCINO" web video.

California state Rep. Chuck DeVore, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Senate, has a fun online activity going on today: Asking visitors to go a special Web site and hunt the demon sheep!

The site is a takeoff on an infamous Web video that was put out a month ago by the campaign of his Republican rival Carly Fiorina, who was attacking the third candidate in the race, former Rep. Tom Campbell, as a "fiscal conservative in name only." The video depicted Campbell as some sort of monstrous creature with glowing red eyes -- perhaps a wolf, perhaps a demon -- in sheep's clothing.

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