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President Obama Is About to Achieve Something Historic That We Should All Be Excited About
Barack Obama looks set to make history next week!
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President Obama Is About to Achieve Something Historic That We Should All Be Excited About

By Steve Straub - 61 Comments · In US




President Obama is about to suffer the worst political setback of any president in the last 60 years.
Via the Daily Mail:
Barack Obama looks set to make history next week as the president with the worst successive results in midterm congressional elections in more than 60 years.
Obama’s Democratic Party lost 63 House seats in 2010 and is expected to lose a further five to 12 when votes come in next week, although some speculators suggest the result could be even worse.

He stands to lose a combined total of somewhere between 68 to 75 House seats – the worst total of any two-term president since Harry Truman shed 55 House seats in 1946 and a further 28 in 1950 – a total of 83.

By contrast George W Bush lost a combined 22 seats (30 in 2002 but up eight in 2006), Bill Clinton lost a combined 49 (54 in 1994 but up five in 1998) while Ronald Reagan lost a combined 31 (26 in 1982 and five in 1986).
And it doesn’t get much better for Obama in the Senate where he expected to lose between five and ten seats next week, taking his combined losses to somewhere between 11 and 16 seats.
That would compare to a total of five seats for George W Bush, eight for Bill Clinton and seven for Ronald Reagan.
Eisenhower lost a total of 13 Senate seats in his two midterms and Truman a whopping 17.
This is one of President Obama’s achievements we should all be proud of. It’s only fair to give him credit where credit is due!


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