(BUSINESS INSIDER) After this morning’s surprisingly positive jobless claims number was released, three things happened:

 

  1. Lots of people felt better about the economy
  2. Democrats cheered because they thought the number would help Obama
  3. Republicans seized on confusing reports that the numbers had “excluded claims from one large state” (probably California) and blasted the number as wrong and misleading.
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