Lies, damn lies, and statistics

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You do realize that every incumbent president seeking reelection has to portray the country's condition as better now than when they first took office. And that every challenger has to argue that conditions are worse. And when it comes to the country's condition, it is famously said that "it's the economy, stupid!".

Not surprisingly, the Democratic drumbeat emphasized only the positive economic indications. But it should have been impossible for you to not hear the Republican drumbeat emphasizing only the negatives. The Republicans message certainly was that "everything sucks right now for everyone" with the addendum that "it's all the fault of the Democrats".

What I never heard prior to the election was a believable Republican plan to make things better for the American lower and middle classes. Did you? And I certainly haven't heard one since the election either. Have you?

Sadly, the shrinking of the American middle class and the steady loss of living wage jobs is a decades long trend that no one administration or political party is responsible for.

My two cents...

Started with Reagan and every Pub admin since.