Unemployment Rate: Romney and Rate

unemployment rate: If only we had elected Mitt Romney, according to Market Watch. If only we had placed more faith in the promises of Newt Gingrich and other Republicans. If only we had listened in 2012. Just think where we'd be today. When Romney made that promise, the nation unemployment rate was 8.2%. Today, that rate is 4.9%, according to the Labor Department. I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we'd put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower, Romney vowed on May 23, 2012. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.