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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (360028)11/27/2007 1:57:09 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 1583663
 
Why? Well if it really has, I don't know why. Perhaps Democratic presidents restrict increases in manufacturing productivity to a greater extent than Republican presidents do. Or considering the fact that your comparing only a pretty small number of presidents you don't have sufficient numbers for other factors to balance out and the reasons may be mostly unrelated to who was president. With you have relativly few data points, and you have many factors other than the one you want to measure, its hard to draw any solid conclusions.

Or its possible that if there is some causation it could work in the other direction. If you have presidencies with greater increase of manufacturing productivity, and thus more lose of manufacturing employment, that could cause a temporary increase in support for Democrats. Than their could be a reversion to the norm and manufacturing employment might not decrease as much.

it also speaks to the whole notion of tax cuts for corporations and private citizens promoted by the GOP. If tax cuts were so good, why doesn't the economic statistics reflect that premise?

What statistic are you using to measure the premise? Manufacturing employment? That's a little to narrow to represent the health of the economy. Also you could use manufacturing productivity (also an economic stat) and possibly get near the opposite result. And that's not even considering who controlled congress at the time, or any possible delay in the positive and/or negative effects of presidential policies.
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