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Campaign Roundup: Those stubborn unemployment numbers. . .

August 3, 2012 | 3:30 pm
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President Obama:

Obama heralds jobs gains but admits there’s ‘more work to do’

WH: The unemployment rate is actually 8.254 percent, not 8.3 percent

Team Obama said in ’09 stimulus would have unemployment below 6% by 2012

Obama: ‘If I was a Jets fan, I’d be pretty nervous’

Jets respond. . .

Mitt Romney:

Romney: Unemployment rate increase ‘a hammer blow’ to middle class

Romney hits July jobs report as a ‘moral failure’

Romney: Obama raised taxes on the middle class with Obamacare

Romney: Chick-fil-A controversy ‘not part of my campaign’

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