Historically the year of a presidential election is marred by an unremarkable economy. That is true regardless of who is president and who is running for president. It is generally then followed up by a decent bump after the election regardless of who wins.
I would argue that it has more to do with the fact that a lot of millionaires and billionaires are spending exorbitant amounts of money lobbying for their candidates instead of investing in their actual companies.
It's not an excuse it is the reason why economic growth has been relatively low this last decade, and it still is under Trump.
Actually, Obama inherited -2.8% GDP growth, and in his second year turned into +2.5% GDP growth. That's year to year improvement of 5.3% growth which is actually insanely good.
Ummm... No, what it says was that in Obama's final year in office(which was an election year) the economy wasn't as good as it was the 5 preceding years when Obama was also president. Despite that, we still had growth.
First, the stock market is not the economy, and if you think it is you need to ask yourself why it's been relatively piss poor this year despite Republican tax cuts.
Second, as I pointed out earlier history has shown that the economy and stock market often behaves quite mildly in an election year, and it is frequently followed by a post-election bump. That generally happens regardless of who is in the office or who wins.
Overall, President Obama had at least three years of Job Growth that was better than the first two years under Trump so things are roughly the same, maybe even worse.
Each of Obama's final four years in office saw the number of Job Openings break records.
Was already very high under Obama.
No, that would seem to be you.
You have not presented one shred of evidence to indicate the Economy is on a better trajectory today than it was three years ago. It's roughly the same and in some cases worse. The single biggest difference between today and three years ago was that Obama was actually reducing our deficits not making them worse. Trump is bringing back trillion dollar deficits with little or no economic improvement to show for them.
