evidence: - The economy lost 2.7 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.7 percentage points to 6.4%. [...] - The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million. [...] As we’ve often said, readers may find these statistics to be good, bad or neutral, and opinions differ on how much credit or blame a president should get for what happens while he is in office. We leave those judgments to others.