This was the month by month unemployment rate from nov 83 to nov 84

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Reagan saw pretty consistent drops in unemployment for both of 83 and 84. In contrast, we have seen the rate rise for most of the year with a .4% drop just this month. Without that drop, there would have been no drop at all this year. In comparison, 83 saw a 2.1% drop (10.4 to 8.3). The trajectory in Reagan's case was very positive, ours appears to be fairly flat. We won't be running a morning in America campaign.

...American people aren't going to get into nuance. The unemployment rate was 9.8 in November 2010, and it's 8.6 percent now.

If they cared about nuance, I suspect that when the unemployment rate bounced up .3 percent in June 1984 that would have been cause for panic.

There has been 21 consecutive months of job growth. Sure anything could happen, but the trend is positive.