Scott Pelley's Obvious A.M. Error: Claims Florida's First High-Unemployment Primary State

Matthew Balan | January 31, 2012
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Scott Pelley simply got it wrong on the 31 January 2012 edition of CBS This Morning, when he claimed that the Republican presidential candidates "have finally arrived in a state that was very hard hit by the great recession and has been suffering for a very long time. The unemployment rate here is about 10%." In reality, South Carolina, the state that held the last GOP primary, has about the same unemployment rate, at 9.9%.

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