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Barack Obama: “Across almost every economic index, we are better off than we were when we came in by a long shot.”

On the recordOctober 22, 2016
Across almost every economic index, we are better off than we were when we came in by a long shot.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Fundraiser in La Jolla

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