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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (899052)	12/4/2015 3:59:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575557

The main points about any such comparison are 1 - Small samples size. 2 - No consistent Republican or Democratic policy to observe and say one policy is better then the other. Both parties' presidents are all over the map over that time frame. Its like saying "presidents with beards have had better then those without over the history of the US" (I have no idea if that is true, but economic growth was higher in the pas and presidents with beards were more common so maybe it is) so we should make sure the next president has a beard. 3 - The president doesn't have sole control of policy that affects the economy, and policy is far from the only variable. 4 - "Since 28" makes the great depression the biggest variable. FDR had better growth then Hoover, but that's largely a matter of when they took office. Considering more recent presidents, Clinton was lucky enough to have a recession right before he was president, and to have the next one hold off until he was out of office. Bush followed him and had 2 recessions happen slightly closer together. The timing of those 3 recessions (1 right before Clinton, one right after during Bush's time in office, one later in Bush's time in office), could easily have shifted a bit, perhaps without changing what party controlled the white house. If that happened you have the same parties in power at the same time, pretty much the same overall growth in the economy, and very similar timing and depth of recessions, but the Democrats look much worse and the Republicans much better.