Unemployment rate in 1980 was 7.1 percent

opposite. I'm not following your logic here.

Someone can find the numbers but, if it went from 10.5% to 7.1%, that's really good; if it went from 4.5% to 7.1%, not so much.

1977-08-01 7.0
1977-09-01 6.8
1977-10-01 6.8
1977-11-01 6.8
1977-12-01 6.4
1978-01-01 6.4
1978-02-01 6.3
1978-03-01 6.3
1978-04-01 6.1
1978-05-01 6.0
1978-06-01 5.9
1978-07-01 6.2
1978-08-01 5.9
1978-09-01 6.0
1978-10-01 5.8
1978-11-01 5.9
1978-12-01 6.0
1979-01-01 5.9
1979-02-01 5.9
1979-03-01 5.8
1979-04-01 5.8
1979-05-01 5.6
1979-06-01 5.7
1979-07-01 5.7
1979-08-01 6.0
1979-09-01 5.9
1979-10-01 6.0
1979-11-01 5.9
1979-12-01 6.0
1980-01-01 6.3
1980-02-01 6.3
1980-03-01 6.3
1980-04-01 6.9
1980-05-01 7.5
1980-06-01 7.6
1980-07-01 7.8
1980

Presidents with unemployment rates over 8% almost always lose.

There's no claim that presidents with unemployment rates under 8% almost always win.

More things matter than just unemployment rates.

every poll. The only thing that has been hanging over Obama is the economy--including a slowly rising unemployment rate. During the recession Unemployment hit more than 10% and Obama had gotten it down to about 8% and now it's starting to creep up and job creation has not been robust, though the 165,000 created last month wasn't bad--we need several months of that and better to see real improvement in unemployment.

Obama has a challenger who is unlikable. He has ended a war and begun to end another. He has accomplished some good things legislatively. So what is it that keeps Romney in the game if it's not the economy?????

Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections.
Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination.
Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president.
Third party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
Short term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
Long term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.
Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.
Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.
Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.
Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero.
Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero.


If 5 or fewer are false the incumbent wins...right no nor more than three of these are False...