[quote=“BrockwayMT,post:43,topic:39899"”]
strangely both are republicans.
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You graph with it’s red and blue curve is very misleading in this day of “red state”, “blue state” considering that Ike (Eisenhower), Nixon and Ford were all Republicans as well.
While we’re playing with graphs, look how this one of the Dow’s performance lines up with the “bad” Bush/Reagan years. 
Notice how it was flat from 1965 until almost 1980?