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If Obama's results on unemployment are as bad as you say, what does that say about every other Republican president going back to Hoover since they all performed worse than Obama up until this point, except for Reagan, who has performed the same as the unemployment rate increased by ½ a point during his first 36 months in office...
Here's a list of presidents, along with the percentage of increase, or decrease, of the U3 unemployment rate after 36 months in office...
Nixon +2.4 +71% Ford* +2.0 +36% GHW Bush +1.9 +35% Bush +1.5 +36% Eisenhower +1.1 +38% Reagan +0.5 +7% Obama +0.5 +6% Kennedy** -1.2 -14% Carter -1.2 -16% Clinton -1.7 -23% Johnson -2.1 -37%
* = Ford was in office 29 months
** = Kennedy was in office 34 months
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data
Because Obama promised to bring Unemployment down quickly with all the tax money he was spending---IE his programs and monetary policy did not work as advertised and now we have a mountain of debt with the same economic conditions in terms of unemployment. Thats the problem. Obama isnt going to run on his record Hes going to run on a narrative about Romney. Its all going to be about framing and narratives.