Deal: Cooked books producing high jobless data

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ATLANTA -- Thursday, Gov. Nathan Deal's campaign planned a press conference, hoping to announce good news for the governor. Instead, the Republican found himself explaining a fourth straight month of rising unemployment.

"I am troubled by it obviously," said Deal.

The numbers come from the federal Department of Labor. The same agency has shown growth in the number of jobs in Georgia in the last three years -- which led Deal to suggest that Democrats were cooking the numbers to hurt him and other Republican governors,

"It's ironic in a year in which Republican governors are leading some of the states that are making the most progress, that they almost without exception are classified as having a bump in their unemployment rates," Deal said. "Whereas states that are under Democratic governors control, they are all showing that their unemployment rate has dropped."

Deal's campaign shared a chart showing that unemployment jumped in July under 22 of 29 GOP governors -- but dropped in 13 of 21 states led by Democrats.

"I don't know how you account for that. Maybe there is some influence here that we don't know about," Deal said.

Democrat Jason Carter said the problem was Deal.

"To question the numbers, to me, it's just making excuses instead of looking for answers," Carter said.

The Democratic Governors Association described Deal's explanation as a "bizarre rant"-- adding unexpected fuel to this campaign's final weeks.

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I am totally outraged that the governor would even suggest that the most transparent and honest administration to ever grace the halls of Congress and the White House would ever cook books to aid his agenda and the Democratic Party. The nerve of some politicians!!!!!!!!