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What is it about Obama supporters that create such a very selective memory and such loyal support?
As pinqy has pointed out, it's not a question of supporting Obama. The issue is that you have a distorted perception of the data. You and others in this forum refuse to acknowledge something that has been explained to you repeatedly: the economy was in worse than terrible shape when Obama inherited it — it was on the verge of going under. Since then it has steadily improved. If the trends continue, the numbers by the end of his second term will be significantly better than they are now. What will you say then? Took too long, too much deficit spending. It's a broken record.
Another important factor to take into account is that the figures from, say, 2005 and 2006, were the result of an economy that was in a housing bubble, one that was getting ready to burst. That created the mess that Obama has been cleaning up. There is nothing objective about yer analysis; it's baseless, unqualified, partisan rhetoric. And so predictably you portray those who take an unbiased view as falling into that category.
pinqy mentioned trends. Here's U-4 over the past twenty years:
It moved between 4% and 6% until the Great Recession hit. It's about to re-enter that range. That's why we say Obama has led the employment market back to recovery.
Here's discouraged as a percentage of the civilian population aged 25 to 64 from 2000 until last fall:
Same trend — getting back to the normal range. Ideally, you'd look at the civilian labor force over the age of sixteen. If you weren't such a pathetic hack, I might work up a graph of those numbers, but there's no point in it.
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