{"id":337,"date":"2008-10-28T17:21:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2008-10-28T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T00:23:26","slug":"dems-or-repubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Dems or Repubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl has been telling us how much better the economy does under Democrats than Republicans.  In an effort to be as fair as possible I took the liberty of checking on the closing price of the Dow 30 Industrials for the first 6 years Bush was in office but had a Republican majority in Congress.  Then in 2006 there was an election where the Democrats took over both houses of Congress.  Here&#8217;s the daily closing Dow value for those 2 periods.  Hmmm.  I wonder what this means?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dems.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dems-300x172.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"dems\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dems-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dems.png 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/repubs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/repubs-300x184.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"repubs\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/repubs-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/repubs.png 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, September 11th, 2001 happened in the very first part of Bush&#8217;s term.  I wonder what that other stuff means?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daryl has been telling us how much better the economy does under Democrats than Republicans. In an effort to be as fair as possible I took the liberty of checking on the closing price of the Dow 30 Industrials for the first 6 years Bush was in office but had a Republican majority in Congress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donlafferty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}