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“lowered the deficit the most aggressively out of any President over the past 20+ years”

Clinton and a GOP Congress would have that title. This President is openning a large gap http://www.cbo.gov/publication/45010

"who's had consistent job growth for 47 months"

If you go over to the http://data.bls.gov U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics you will see that is nothing special as far as Presidents go (President Bush had 46 months even with 9/11). What should be troubling is the unemployeement rate (same website) taking into account workers who have given up. This is troubling. Also, the part vesus full time employeement figures are not happy ones.

"Which for whatever reason Democrats have been absolutely terrible at combating and presenting the actual situation."

Given the slant of the NYT, MSNBC, and CNN, I have a hard time believing Democrats cannot get their talking points out. In fact, CNN losing market share with their turn to more punditry probably doesn’t help your points either. Of course their sensationalist reporting during the shutdown (They should be happy they weren’t around for Speaker Tip O’Neill’s 12 shutdowns) given the history of the shutdown http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/04/08/6432513-this-w... was pretty pathetic.

// late because responding to this took more time than a I had at a rest stop