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Obama one point below Eisenhower in last pre-election Gallup poll
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(10-23-2016, 02:46 PM)Anthony Wrote: Between where stock prices have gone - up - and where gas prices and unemployment have gone - down, with unemployment being lower in the last 13 consecutive months than it was in every single month of Ronald Reagan's Presidency, one could make the case for Obama being one of the great "boom" - in the economic sense, not the generational sense (!) - Presidents of all time.

Yet the right-wing media has largely succeeded in painting this picture of the economy being "terrible" under this President - the worst it has been since the Depression in fact.

This is because the objective numbers hide more nuanced issues and clash with people's subjective experience. Technological unemployment is making a lot of blue collar manufacturing jobs redundant and an increasing number of people lacking the intelligence or income to go to college and being forced into low pay service industry jobs. Unless you live in the great mega-cities fueled by the Finance, Medical, or Tech industries or in boom towns like Fargo many people's job prospects are increasingly bleak. A lot of the support for Trump comes from small towns in the Lower Midwest and the Rust Belt, where the main employers have closed up and left and people have lost all hope, using opiates, legal and illegal, to numb the pain they live in.
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RE: Obama one point below Eisenhower in last pre-election Gallup poll - by Odin - 10-24-2016, 07:03 AM

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