but you artfully neglected data which demonstrates the ideological counter to the current president had an even lower unemployment rate. It's just what we were talking about in that Bowser thread on Off Topic where we were discussing the relative merits of multiple data sources on the internet, and my point that the torrent of available and often conflicting inflormation does not always lead to increased understanding, but is highly susceptible to misinterpretaion and distortion.

Actually, I had never bothered to check the government websites for those kinds of figures, I just accepted the often-repeated urban myths about business-friendly administrations automatically translating to more benign economic statistics. At least, that's what the Republicans have been claiming for years.

Simple enough for ya?