Who will vote democrat after this?

[chason62]

Because I won't vote for the treasonous GOP that helped a president hide his dereliction of duty for political power!

Bush is still guilty of dereliction of duty for ignoring terrorism until 9/11/2001!

[teyo]

Because you are lying....as usual.

The unemployment rate under Bush's last month in office was 7.5% and rising.....and had been rising over the previous year. http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2009/feb/wk2/art02.htm

[norwyn]

So when the Market was hemoraging a million dollars a month for the 5 month before the election, we should ignore that?

[bearchan]

those people do it.

[tate8]

Who'll vote Dem? Everyone who doesn't want total corporate control of our government. Not that the Dems are great in that regard, they're just not as bad as repubs.

[abisha]

The recession started in 2007: Bush. The recession high for unemployment was 10.1. 2.6 million jobs were lost in 2008 and 4.1 million in 2009, arguably the recession which started under Bush.

The 2009 budget was Bush's and had a $1.4 trillion deficit.

The Iraq and Afghanistan wars were initiated by Bush and have continuing costs even today, contributing yearly to the deficits.

Medicare-Part D was Bush's and has continuing costs, contributing yearly to the deficits.

The tax cuts were intiated by Bush and contribute to the deficits yearly.

Median incomes always drop during a recession and are slow to recover.

Stats concerning public employees versus private employees are invalid unless you compare for similar experience and education as well as type of work. Public sector employees, taken as a whole, are older with more experience and have higher levels of education. Also, a higher percentage of public sector workers, taken as a whole are in professional, management, and supervisory positions than in the private setor. Then, an analyis shows that combined wages and benefits are actually lower for public sector workers when those factors are considered. Also, stats show that states with collective bargaining and states without have very similar budget pictures, so public sector employment is not the cause of deficits.

Bush grew public employment by much more than Obama and private sector by much less. Also, Obama's numbers should only be measured as what he gained back after the recession started weakening since the recession began prior to his election.

Who would vote Republican given the mess Bush handed Obama?