Man....Clinton was GOOD!!!

[shmokes]

Most people, liberal or conservative, agree that Gallup is the gold standard in polling and has been for many decades.  I was just checking out their website and clicked on "State of the Nation" which shows a few indicators relating to the state of the nation.  It doesn't make any partisan statements, but if you read between the lines by looking at the dates you can see a really interesting statistic.

In the Economic Confidence poll, the lowest rating came in a poll conducted between Aug 31 andSep 2, 1992 -- four months before George Bush senior stepped down for Clinton (which, of course was preceeded by eight years of Reagan).  When I say the lowest rating, I mean the LOWEST rating EVER in the history of Gallup polling.  90% of Americans thought that the economy was crap.

Two dates tie for the HIGHEST rating ever, in the history of Gallup polling.  Those polls were conducted July 25-26, 2000 and Aug 18-19, 2000.  That would be four months before Clinton left office.

God, he was a good president.

Here's the page this info is coming from.

[mr.Curmudgeon]

The people were confident because they actually had freakin' jobs.  

Clinton was just following a trend since, as far as creating jobs is concerned, the worst Democratic President is better than the best Republican President.

[APFelon]

From not wanting to deal with politics on an arcade board to diving in face first. You have a CHART. Are you looking to counterbalance Drew?

APf

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Probably.  

[APFelon]

Hooooooray! Endless political flamewars!

Your chart plays a cheap eyetrick, by the way. Since the top half is blue and the lower half is red, it leads the casual looker to believe that job growth was in the negative for Republican presidents. Naughty naughty, a red elephant would have been fine.

Also, it isn't clear on that that percentage is based on. Is it job loss/gain per month of the presedency and then averaged? or the entire tenure of the president? If it is the entire tenure, W. should not have been included as his presidency is not yet complete.

APf.

[fredster]

The economic indicators during that period was due to the fact the stock market was over-inflated.  Remember the IPO storm?

I think the Republicans had all the good economic policies back then and dragged the Dems in.

Thank God we have George W to set the taxes straight again.  I was beginning to worry that we'd go socialist.