Economy In Perspective - unemployment, jobs, GDP growth, inflation, the deficit, and tax receipts

If you can read this small but informative website - it's just a few pages and reads sequentially - and still want to vote for a Republican I will be amazed.  Please explain.

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INTRODUCTION

"During an economic downturn politicians often have very heated arguments about the best way to approach the problem.  This made us curious about how effectively the economic policies of previous presidents might have dealt with these situations.  In 2009 we began researching the issue and compiled some statistics.  Our goal was to create a long-term view of the economy, using the metrics that everyone brings up to show how good (or bad) things are going. These are: unemployment and job creation, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, inflation, the deficit, and tax receipts.  This would let people put numbers to common questions such as, “What was happening” and “How did we get that way”."
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Department of Commerce have been compiling economic data for decades, and whenever possible we have taken the data directly from their website.  For data on national debt and federal receipts, our source is the St. Louis Federal Reserve. 
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so the authors took lots of data and made many graphs and charts like this one here

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CONCLUSION
We disregarded all the arguments and took the simple step of finding the economic measures that seemed most important: jobs, growth, spending and inflation, and asked when they looked good and when they looked bad.  We found the answer very surprising.  With few exceptions, the economy looked good when democrats were in the oval office, and less good when republicans had taken over.  It seems somehow that it can’t be that simple, but we’re content to let the analysts fight over that.  For us, the numbers speak for themselves more clearly than any economic analyst ever has.

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