DougR: I don't think the congress has a lot to do with prosperity at all, but I think nevertheless your argument is flawed. If in 1992 Clinton and the all-dem congress put into motion legislation (etc) that resulted in prosperity, do you think it would show up immediately? Not saying they did, mind you. But it stands to reason that things done by the congress session of 93-95 would not really show up in economic trends for some time, perhaps even not until after the election of 1994.

What really caused the election of 1994, of course, was the American public's realizing that they had foolishly given both the legislative and executive branches to the same political party. Not being able to vote out the president, they instead flopped the aisles in congress.

JMHO.

Alex
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