How exactly do you envision that happened? Obama told his economic advisors, the advisors told everyone at the BLS/BEA? Don't you think it would leak to the press? With millions of educated people, who have access to raw data via Freedom of Information Act, don't you think someone would show that they are full of shit (someone real, not some dude in his basement)?
The reality has a liberal bias. It's a well-known fact.
(a) Rather, "liberals" have a reality bias. Look at who is pro-science, pro-evidence and who is not. It actually makes perfect sense, considering that the "left" is educated, urban and non-religious and the right is (mostly) the opposite. Peasants have been duped for centuries.
(b) The definition of "liberal" and "conservative" has changed. When I came to this country in the 80s, I identified myself as a socially libertarian and financially conservative. Liberals in my book were idealistic dreamers that want all sorts of impossible shit. A perfect fit for the GOP. If anything, those view have strengthened over the years, but the GOP of the 2016 is not the GOP 1990. The party has left myself and many other people behind (*).
(c) The fact that one rejects scientific theories/models without being a specialist in any of the sciences (in fact, probably without any tangible higher education) does not make one a "libertarian" or a "conservative". The fact that one believes in all sorts of conspiracy theories does not make one "skeptical". It makes one an uneducated idiot. That applies to both sides of the political spectrum, from anti-vaccine people on the far right to anti-GMO people on the far left.
(*) I recently heard an interview with Bruce Bartlett, a former policy advisor to Reagan and Bush Sr. He expressed both (a) and (b) far more eloquently, but the general idea is the same.
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