TheBigAristotle posted:

Whenever I see this stat, I think about all the incidents of toddlers nearly killing someone that likely go unreported.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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FronzelNeekburm posted:

Why aren't people jumping on board with the scatterbrained Republican?!

FronzelNeekburm posted:

Why aren't people jumping on board with the scatterbrained Republican?!

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Seven years ago President Obama came to this northern Indiana city, where unemployment was heading past 20 percent, for his first trip as president. Ed Neufeldt, the jobless man picked to introduce him, afterward donned three green rubber bracelets, each to be removed in turn as joblessness fell to 5 percent in the county, the state and the nation.
It took years — in 2012, Mr. Neufeldt lamented to a local reporter that he might wear his wristbands “to my casket” — but by last year they had all come off. Elkhart’s unemployment rate, at 3.8 percent, is among the country’s lowest, so low that employers here in the self-described R.V. capital of the world are advertising elsewhere for workers, offering sign-up bonuses, even hiring from a local homeless shelter.

Yet where is Mr. Neufeldt leaning in this presidential election year? He may keep a photograph of himself and Mr. Obama on a desk at the medical office he cleans nightly, but he is considering Donald J. Trump.
“I like the way he just won’t take nothing off of nobody,” Mr. Neufeldt said, though days later he allowed: “He scares me sometimes.”

Now, Mr. Donnelly noted, Chrysler plants employ more than 5,000 people to the south in Kokomo, up from 100 at their nadir, and 7,000 statewide. Yet autoworkers are more apt to complain about the president’s gun proposals than to acknowledge the auto turnaround.

While Indiana’s presidential primaries are relatively late in the race — May 3 — and polls are lacking, Mr. Howey predicted that Mr. Trump would do well.
Now, with unemployment so low, local leaders say the challenge is finding workers who can pass employers’ drug tests.

“Everybody is back to work,” Mr. Neufeldt said recently, driving past once-closed plants lining county roads, their lots full of employees’ vehicles and, in many, newly manufactured R.V.s.

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Clinton 31%
Trump 63%

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This city exemplifies the economic recovery the country has experienced since the Great Recession ended. Elkhart’s unemployment rate, which had reached a high of 22 percent in March of 2009, is now at 3.9 percent.

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But despite the decisions that the Obama administration made that might have helped Elkhart, many people here have a strong dislike of Obama, who presided over an economic recovery in which the unemployment rate fell nationally to 4.6 percent from a high of 10 percent in October 2009. They say it’s not Obama who is responsible for the city or the country’s economic progress, and furthermore, that the economy won’t truly start to improve until President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

“He didn’t help us here, but he took credit for what happened,” Chris Corbin, 47, who works for a dispatch company in Elkhart, told me. Corbin thinks it will be Trump who improves the economy. “It’s going to take two terms, but he’ll fix things,” he said.

haveblue posted:

The guy on the right is Merrick Garland, who's going back down having never even gotten a chance to do what he went up to do.

Trogdos! posted:

beepsandboops posted:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/its-not-the-economy-stupid/511634/

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Few people here are thanking him for their recovery, despite benefits from the administration’s $800 billion stimulus package — Mr. Obama came here in August 2009 to personally announce one grant — and from the rescues of the auto and financial industries.

“He gets very, very little credit, and I think that’s too bad because we got quite a bit of help,” said Dick Moore, Elkhart’s mayor the past eight years, a Democrat who lost election to a third term in November. “I don’t know what we would have done without it."

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“He didn’t help us here, but he took credit for what happened,” Chris Corbin, 47, who works for a dispatch company in Elkhart, told me. Corbin thinks it will be Trump who improves the economy. “It’s going to take two terms, but he’ll fix things,” he said.

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Frijolero posted:

It looks more like Hollande no?

Duke Igthorn posted:

Trump will "fix" your record low unemployment and and record breaking economic boom? That's...good?

Pilchenstein posted:

Here's a Collins that I don't think's been posted:

ThaumPenguin posted:

something something accelerationism

King Possum III posted:

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KillerQueen posted:

Ah, because of lies, thanks for clearing that up fake black guy

Quorum posted:

Polls showed that Republican voters immediately thought about the economy in a more positively as of November 9 than November 8. The reality of the economy has no impact.

beepsandboops posted:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/its-not-the-economy-stupid/511634/

Cloud Potato posted:

Pilchenstein posted:

Here's a Collins that I don't think's been posted:

Peanut Butler posted:

Lee Judge Fukken Loves Baseball

Sandpuppy posted:

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Xander77 posted:

Well, if your lifelong ambition was to actually blow someone's mind by posting a link, consider it achieved.

Racism aside, what the gently caress else do these assholes want?

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Andi Ermes, 39, offered a number of reasons for disliking Obama. She said Obama didn’t attend the Army-Navy football game, even though other presidents had. Obama has actually attended more Army-Navy games than George H.W. Bush. She said that he had taken too many vacations. He has taken fewer vacation days than George W. Bush. She also said that he refused to wear a flag pin on his lapel. While it is true that Obama did not wear a flag on his lapel at points during the 2007 campaign, it was back on his suit by 2008. Ermes told me the news sources she consumes most are Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and a local conservative radio show hosted by Casey Hendrickson.

Xander77 posted:

Well, if your lifelong ambition was to actually blow someone's mind by posting a link, consider it achieved.

Racism aside, what the gently caress else do these assholes want?

Selachian posted:

Just as a reminder, Lee Judge is also the sports columnist who thought it was totally cool for Jonathan Papelbon to try to choke Bryce Harper because Harper "certainly seems like a young man who needs an attitude adjustment."

duz posted:

Giuliani said as much while campaigning for Trump, the numbers about the economy don't matter, how people feel about the economy matters.

Xander77 posted:

Well, if your lifelong ambition was to actually blow someone's mind by posting a link, consider it achieved.

Racism aside, what the gently caress else do these assholes want?

Apple Pie Hubbub posted:

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Trogdos! posted:

SwitchbladeKult posted:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/08/05/newt-gingrich-exemplifies-just-how-unscientific-america-is


There is no combating ignorance this thick and this wilful.

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Sandpuppy posted:

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Quorum posted:

Polls showed that Republican voters immediately thought about the economy in a more positively as of November 9 than November 8. The reality of the economy has no impact.

twoday posted:

This almost made me feel happy for a second

King Possum III posted:

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