doing. michigan, if you go back to the vote of november 2008, you see the unemployment rate that stand at 11.2%. entirely too high. a lot of this has to do with the auto industry. the national average is 9.1%. the amount of jobs lost since the election of 2008 is not that dramatic. only down 14,000 jobs. but a lot of that has to do with the auto bailout that came out of washington to save many of those jobs. before the election the auto industry was struggling already in washington and gave a good hand to michigan to help itself. but if you look at some of these raw numbers out of michigan. in the city of draw it, unemployment is at 22.5%. the population in detroit over the past 10 years is down 25%. in real estate a survey found