mattie_shoes
Per Capita GDP analysis
So I took some publicly available per capita Gross Domestic Product data and played with it a bit. I found a best fit regression line, then measured distance from the regression line here. Democrats in blue, Republicans in red. I indicated changes in administration within the same party with an arrow. I don't really believe the president has all that much control over per capita GDP, though his policies will affect it to some extent.
From this, it looks like Eisenhower, and both Bushes were terrible. Clinton was absurdly good as well as Kennedy/Johnson.
I think there's a problem with this though... Obama inherited a flaming sack of shit from our previous president. No matter what he does, things are going to continue to suck for a while. Looking at the graph, I figured there's a 1 or 2 year delay before a new administration's policies start to have any real impact. The speed of government is not fast. So, on to the next one...
Per Capita GDP analysis
So I took some publicly available per capita Gross Domestic Product data and played with it a bit. I found a best fit regression line, then measured distance from the regression line here. Democrats in blue, Republicans in red. I indicated changes in administration within the same party with an arrow. I don't really believe the president has all that much control over per capita GDP, though his policies will affect it to some extent.
From this, it looks like Eisenhower, and both Bushes were terrible. Clinton was absurdly good as well as Kennedy/Johnson.
I think there's a problem with this though... Obama inherited a flaming sack of shit from our previous president. No matter what he does, things are going to continue to suck for a while. Looking at the graph, I figured there's a 1 or 2 year delay before a new administration's policies start to have any real impact. The speed of government is not fast. So, on to the next one...