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correlation != causation
[/ QUOTE ]There's nothing in politics or economics which can have its causation proven. A hypothesis can only be proven incorrect.
However this correlation is just about as strong as they come. On average the economy and the budget does much better under a Democratic Administration.
Oh, and on topic, the right-wing American Enterprise Institute recently came out with this:
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubI...pub_detail.asp
Bush Junior is a drunk spendthrift.
Somehow half of America has been convinced that we should spend a ton of money building up another country, but not our own. If the Left could ever get a noise machine that powerful, imagine what we could accomplish. Maybe our students would start competing well against other nations... who knows. The sky is the limit.