Will jobs and unemployment decide the 2012 Presidential election?
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Americans have been calling on politicians to help create jobs, but unemployment remains somewhere around 9 percent. Binyamin Appelbaum financial reporter for the New York Times talks with Here and Now about how unemployment could affect the 2012 election.
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