because people leave the job market. give up looking for work. we actually saw that in august, but in september, that 0.3 decline in the unemployment rate was the good way. a lot more people got work. that also tells you, though, the numbers jump around from month to month and you have to be careful to kind of average out over the past few months. now, i did that with the payroll number. that s the 114,000 you mentioned. that s the more reliable number on a monthly basis. average that out over the past three moss adding about 150,000 jobs per month. compare that to the prior three month, adding only about 70,000. real acceleration in job growth and the unemployment rate coming down for good reasons this time. something else to look at here. big differences in unemployment when it comes to breaking it down race by race. right. look at asians. 4.8%. whites, 7%. for hispanics, the rate is almost 10% there. for african-american, it s over 13%.
of key swing states, the obama folks have twice the number of field offices. the l.a. times looked at the payroll numbers. they find the obama campaign is employing twice the number of staff as the the romney campaign last month at about the same cost. there are twice as many people working on the obama campaign if you exclude the $200,000 the romney campaign paid out in bonuses to its campaign officials last month, the romney s payroll number was still roughly the same as president obama s even though president obama had double the number of boots on the ground. fewer romney staff but they get paid a lot more. there s a reason president obama is ahead in the last 20 national polls. there s a reason he s up by eight in the latest washington post poll in ohio. his campaign is doing more and whichever way you squint at the data, president obama is winning his effort at reelection.
of key swing state, the obama folks have twice the number of field offices. the l.a. times looked at the payroll numbers. they find the obama campaign is employing twice the number of staff as the the romney campaign last month at about the same cost. there are twice as many people working on the obama campaign if you exclude the $200,000 the romney campaign paid out in bonuses to its campaign officials last month, the romney s payroll number was still roughly the same as president obama s even though president obama had double the number of boots on the ground. fewer romney staff e but they get paid a lot more. there s a reason president obama is ahead in the last 20 national polls. there s a reason he s up by eight in the latest washington post poll in ohio. his campaign is doing more and whichever way you skint at the data, president obama is winning his effort at reelection.
from investors during the ipo process. now, specifically they are talking about forecasts that revenue would be lower in 2012. facebook tells cnn, by the way, that the lawsuit is without merit. ron is a former s.e.c. investment attorney. henry blodgett, ceo of business insider, a website. back in 2003 henry settled a civil securities charge with s.e.c. he was banned from the securities industry. he s a good friend of our show. henry, i say this because it s relevant to our discussion. you probably know more about this now than most people do. unfortunately. if no laws were broken, no regulations breached, and it s quite possible that s the case, this still has some kind of stink that makes investors think the system is stacked against them. that s right. this highlighted a set of rules that really are grossly unfair to individual investors. it was similar in my case. when i got in trouble analysts working closely with bankers and ipos after the dot-combust. that s ludic
administration and the unemployment rate has dropped a fu full percent. if this continues, it bodes extremely well for the president! if you look at the numbers released this morning, and i know you have, not necessarily good news for everyone. that s right. you can look at people who have given up. it may sound technical, but it s important for people to understand. the payroll number that you hear, 200,000 jobs added, that s a very factual number. the unemployment rate, which is the number we psychologically react to and the number that predicts the presidential election actually comes from people calling up households across america and asking them if they have jobs. when the last time that you looked for a job was, so these are not based on the same set of numbers. part of the reason you can see a decline is because a lot of people who need and want jobs give up looking for jobs. which was part of the reason we saw the drop. so it is mixed.