Red State-Blue State: Can job growth choose the next president?

Our “Red State-Blue State” feature puts economic data into context as we look ahead to the 2020 presidential election.If “It’s the economy, stupid” decides political battles, let’s see how my trusty spreadsheet calculates state-by-state business trends when looking through a presidential election’s prism. Let’s remember, many voters make ballot-box decisions based on how their checkbook is feeling.
Key factor: Job growth, because if bosses are hiri