在对美国经济进行现代统计的时期，民主党在经济表现的几乎所有方面都超过共和党(包括GDP增长、失业率、通货膨胀以及预算赤字 ) 。
Over the period for which modern statistics are readily available, Democrats have outperformed Republicans by almost every traditional measure of economic performance (per capita GDP growth, unemployment, inflation, budget deficits).