Democrats outperform Republicans across the board

[rdean]

Republicans don't want the "elite". They hate smart people.

I have to admit, there does seem to be a bit of a theme going. They don't want to fund education and are constantly railing against teachers, they aren't too fond of science, they talk about ivy league universities with a tone of disgust, they're generally suspicious of complicated explanations for things... There is some kind of emotional response that provides a common thread there that isn't pretty.

Yet they insist all knowledge comes from the right wing. I don't get it.

 

[CowboyTed]

Republicans don't want the "elite". They hate smart people.

I have to admit, there does seem to be a bit of a theme going. They don't want to fund education and are constantly railing against teachers, they aren't too fond of science, they talk about ivy league universities with a tone of disgust, they're generally suspicious of complicated explanations for things... There is some kind of emotional response that provides a common thread there that isn't pretty.

Thats a three line answer... Do you expect them to concentrate that long?

 

[whitehall]

In case the radical socialist fringe of the democrat party isn't aware, the DOW Jones indicates corporate wealth and the freaking hypocrites hate corporations. In a free society the DOW will always grow regardless of temporary socialist democrat leadership. Historically the GDP grew under democrat leadership during the 20th century because mostly democrats were in power and war is good for business and all the conflicts during the bloody 20th century started during democrat administrations. Employment statistics can be skewed easily by factoring government jobs but government jobs do not grow the economy and neither do minimum wage jobs. It's ironic that Black unemployment is in double digits while a (half) Black president is in office.

 

[tuhaybey]

In case the radical socialist fringe of the democrat party isn't aware, the DOW Jones indicates corporate wealth and the freaking hypocrites hate corporations. In a free society the DOW will always grow regardless of temporary socialist democrat leadership. Historically the GDP grew under democrat leadership during the 20th century because mostly democrats were in power and war is good for business and all the conflicts during the bloody 20th century started during democrat administrations. Employment statistics can be skewed easily by factoring government jobs but government jobs do not grow the economy and neither do minimum wage jobs. It's ironic that Black unemployment is in double digits while a (half) Black president is in office.

This just strikes me as a bunch of excuses. We're looking at 80 years of data in some of those examples above... Your position is that it is just a coincidence that the Democrats did better consistently for 80 years?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Republicans don't want the "elite". They hate smart people.

Yes, Deany, we're intimidate by your smarts

Perfect! Just perfect.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans don't want the "elite". They hate smart people.

Yes, Deany, we're intimidate by your smarts

Perfect! Just perfect.

It makes me so happy that my typo can brighten your day.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Republicans don't want the "elite". They hate smart people.

Yes, Deany, we're intimidate by your smarts

Perfect! Just perfect.

It makes me so happy that my typo can brighten your day.

Yeah....it stands out when you are calling someone else stupid.

 

[tuhaybey]

So just to be clear, no Republican has managed to come up with a single objective measure that Republicans perform better on or refute the fact that Democrats perform better on all the measures in the OP. So doesn't that mean that it is irrational to vote Republican? If they're bad at running the country, why have them run the country?

 

[Wry Catcher]

It's true, when you look at food stamps, number of people leaving the labor force, record debt and deficits, the Dems own it

Your word is no good and your opinion is worthless sans evidence. Reagan, your Messiah, and GWB (who you've tossed under the bus, and now try to rehab by blaming Obama for the missteps of the past) were not fiscally conservative, i.e. fiscally responsible.

Since your side of the aisle claimed government cannot create jobs, and blame Obama for a job less recovery one might easily conclude your side is hypocritical and dishonest. That It is business and industry who are the only job creators is as false as the claims by the GOP that is it the party of the big tent, has compassion, and puts country first.

Only the dumbest of the dumb will continue to claim the GOP can govern effectively, efficiently and with equality for all. Thus we can expect them to post red herrings, tu quoque, and straw men.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Republicans have better sex, more orgasms, etc. though. Seems counterintuitive until you consider Republicans make sex so illicit and taboo it's no wonder then they're eager little beavers in bed.

 

[Wry Catcher]

In case the radical socialist fringe of the democrat party isn't aware, the DOW Jones indicates corporate wealth and the freaking hypocrites hate corporations. In a free society the DOW will always grow regardless of temporary socialist democrat leadership. Historically the GDP grew under democrat leadership during the 20th century because mostly democrats were in power and war is good for business and all the conflicts during the bloody 20th century started during democrat administrations. Employment statistics can be skewed easily by factoring government jobs but government jobs do not grow the economy and neither do minimum wage jobs. It's ironic that Black unemployment is in double digits while a (half) Black president is in office.

In one paragraph ^^^ we can see mass ignorance, dishonesty and magically thinking (thinking?) as well as how the Crazy New Right propaganda is so effective that dumb people never question the dogma promulgated by their leadership, many of whom lead from the airways/cable, when not on their way to their bank in the Cayman Islands.

1. Government employees buy homes, cars, insurance; they take vacations, invest in stocks and bonds, buy lunches, dinners, clothing and hire plumbers, gardners, attorney's and day care operators.

2. Government projects hire private sector contractors to complete taxpayer funded projects which makes roads, bridges, tunnels and public transportation safer and more efficient.

3. A radical socialist would not allow a stock market or allow business and industry to operate as a private for profit entity, they would be owned by the radical socialist government.

4. I doubt anyone with any knowledge of the history of the 20th century buys your theory that Democrats are war mongers, because war is good for business. LBJ escalated the Vietnam War via the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which passed the H. of Rep. 414 - 0 and the Senate 88-2 (both no votes were by Democrats). Nixon ran on "I have a Plan" (to end the war in Vietnam) during the 1968 Campaign, and yet he escalated the war which didn't end until our defeat SEVEN years later.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Let's look at how many voted for the invasion of Iraq, shall we!:

Iraq Resolution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Seems Democrats are not the war mongers some make them out to be; oh, and see which party votes in lockstep and which party members vote their conscious.

 

[tuhaybey]

Republicans have better sex, more orgasms, etc. though. Seems counterintuitive until you consider Republicans make sex so illicit and taboo it's no wonder then they're eager little beavers in bed.

LOL

 

[tuhaybey]

Let's look at how many voted for the invasion of Iraq, shall we!:

Iraq Resolution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Seems Democrats are not the war mongers some make them out to be; oh, and see which party votes in lockstep and which party members vote their conscious.

The Democrats definitely made a major mistake there- they believed that no President of the United States, regardless of which party they were in, would ever lie to Congress or the American People to start a war he had no reason to start.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Republicans have better sex, more orgasms, etc. though. Seems counterintuitive until you consider Republicans make sex so illicit and taboo it's no wonder then they're eager little beavers in bed.

LOL

Experience bears this out, at least from among repressed Christian girlfriends. They're so repressed sexually, when they meet me, someone completely open and frank about sex, they go nuts.

Forget bars, want a freak to play with meet em at church. More conservative and hardcore the better.

 

[Zander]

Only ignorant cu*nts believe that political parties control the economy.

 

[EconChick]

Democratic leaders consistently trounce Republicans by pretty much every objective measure of performance. That is true at the state and federal level and regardless of whether we are talking about the legislative or executive branch.

For example, consider GDP growth by the party of the federal government:


Note that at present, we are on that green column and we're almost exactly on the average of 2.9%.

Or, consider the change in unemployment rate by the party of the president:


Or, the stock market performance by the party of the president:


Not convinced yet? How about:

Median income of red and blue states
Life expectancy of red and blue states
Gun death rates in red and blue states
Graduate degrees per capita in red and blue states
GDP growth relative to world GDP growth
Change in personal income by party of president
Patents filed per capita of red and blue states
Top 20 years for GDP growth since 1930 by party
Etc., etc., etc.

So, what I am wondering is why anybody votes Republican. Are Republicans just looking at different measures of success? If so, please post them. Or, is the issue that Republicans just aren't looking at which party's policies work out better at all?

And what far left source did you dig all that up from?

It's always fun watching libs twist statistics.

 

[tuhaybey]

Only ignorant cu*nts believe that political parties control the economy.

So your take is that it is just a really big coincidence? 80 years of data looking at a laundry list of different measures, we nearly always perform better under Democrats, and you figure that's just a freak coincidence?

That doesn't seem very plausible.

 

[tuhaybey]

And what far left source did you dig all that up from?

It's always fun watching libs twist statistics.

The site lists the sources for each one. Mostly the BEA and BLS it looks like.

 

[Zander]

Only ignorant cu*nts believe that political parties control the economy.

So your take is that it is just a really big coincidence? 80 years of data looking at a laundry list of different measures, we nearly always perform better under Democrats, and you figure that's just a freak coincidence?

That doesn't seem very plausible.

Correlation does not mean CAUSATION. You're a Kool-Aid drinker.