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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (40099)	12/31/2009 2:34:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

No I objected to the specific comparisons made by party, and to a lesser extent to the whole idea of such a comparison. You could adjust for all the different confounding factors to a certain extent but they are bigger than the inter-party differences, and the intra-party differences are also bigger than the average difference between parties; your signal is much smaller than the noise, so its hard to get anything coherent, with such a comparison, whatever adjustments you try to make. Comparing by eras, well I'm not sure how well that works either. I suppose I'd have to see a definition of the different eras and a comparison made about them to be sure, but again it seems like the factor your trying to measure is lost in the noise of much larger differences. Comparisons between two individuals presidents might work much better. Than you have one specific set of policies against another. Its still a problematic comparison, because the president is almost never the biggest factor effecting the economy, but at least you have something specific to compare. To the extent I have an alternative its to do the comparison between different types of policies. Its a difficult comparison to do, unless your looking at the extremes, but its probably more important than any of the other ones.