Trumps Approval Outpace Reagan, Clinton and Carter

[Final-Fan]

o_O.Q said:

Final-Fan said:

Oh, you think he's exposed his lack of thought on the subject?  Let me educate you. 

First off, it seems weird to me to measure the the cut in unemployment in Obama's term by the metric of eight years when unemployment definitely didn't peak on Day 1 of his presidency, but whatever.  Let's go ahead and give that one to you for now.  Stack the example in Trump's favor. 

So if unemployment during Obama's presidency maxed out at 10%, and dropped to 4.7% by the end of his term, that's a drop of 5.3%.  So the cut in unemployment was 5.3% for Obama and 0.8% for Trump.  But it's true that this is across different amounts of time. 

One and a half years for Trump, you say?  How much bigger is 8 compared to 1.5?  Coincidentally, it's 5.3 times bigger.  So if you multiply Trump's cut in unemployment by 5.3, you get ... 4.3%.  Less than Obama.  Remember, this is with the time factor stacked in Trump's favor. 

Now, people could object that it's not a fair comparison because realistically speaking there's a limit to how far unemployment can actually drop (0% unemployment is basically impossible), but that's not relevant to the claim that unemployment has dropped faster under Trump, which is demonstrably false.  (Clearly, since I just demonstrated it.)   

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"First off, it seems weird to me to measure the the cut in unemployment in Obama's term by the metric of eight years when unemployment definitely didn't peak on Day 1 of his presidency, but whatever.  Let's go ahead and give that one to you for now."

but i didn't? he did? i in response expressed how asinine it is to compare ~1.5 years to ~8 years

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"One and a half years for Trump, you say?  How much bigger is 8 compared to 1.5?  Coincidentally, it's 5.3 times bigger.  So if you multiply Trump's cut in unemployment by 5.3, you get ... 4.3%"

again this is an asinine comparison... you really expect that employment rates are going to follow a constant progression?

 i personally wouldn't be surprised if unemployment rates followed an EXPONENTIAL decrease moving forwards with time until trump finally slays that dragon once and for all sword and shield in hand

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"but that's not relevant to the claim that unemployment has dropped faster under Trump"

under the same time period its a fact and not just a fact but an indisputable fact

1.  You missed my point but it's not that important so let's just move on to the other stuff. 

2.  It clearly wasn't "constant", but on overage unemployment dropped faster under Obama than under Trump. 

2b.  That is complete insanity.  Even the idea that there is any realistic CHANCE of it happening is complete insanity.  I can only hope that when this inevitably fails to happen that it will shake your blind faith in President Trump.  Or maybe you're trolling. 

3.  Did you not understand that I spoke of the average over time for Obama's presidency?  Do you not understand what an average is?  If the average was faster under Obama for 8 years compared to how fast it was under Trump for 1.5 years, then it's mathematically impossible for there to not be a 1.5 year period in Obama's presidency where unemployment dropped at least as fast as it did under Trump.  (Actually, faster.)