Unemployed Voters Were Split Between Obama & Romney, Report Shows

Post-reelection, jobs still priority

President Obama has won the election, but he's got work to do now that it's been revealed that unemployed voters were split between him and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. A new report shows that 26 percent of the public have (or has someone in their household that has) lost a job in the past four years.  If the respondent was unemployed, the break was 50 percent for Obama vs. 45 percent Romney. If only a person in the household lost a job, the split was 51 percent for Romney vs. 48 percent for Obama. With a 7.9 percent unemployment rate in October, Obama holds the highest jobless rate of any president in the post-war era. Of the four other incumbents who ran with unemployment rates above 7 percent, only Ronald Reagan won back the White House. (NBC News)

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