Posted on 10/30/2014 9:04:41 PM PDT by Abakumov
Whatever happens next Tuesday, President Obama’s time in office will have cost his party more seats in Congress than any president in at least half a century.
The numbers are stark. President Obama took office after the 2008 elections with 257 Democrats in the House of Representatives. At the moment, there are only 199 members of his party left — a net loss of 58 seats. And, virtually all analysts expect the number of Democrats to decline even more next Tuesday. The only question is by how much.
To put that number in perspective, the 58 seats already lost by the current president even tops the 46 lost by Richard Nixon amidst the Watergate scandal.
On the Senate side, the same trend is confirmed. Following the 2008 elections, the Democrats held 59 Senate seats. Expectations are that they will have between 45 and 50 following next week’s elections, a decline of 9 to 14 seats. Nixon’s Republicans lost six seats over the same time frame.
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The GOP would never get 67 seats required for the 2/3 conviction in the Senate.
I embrace your sentiment, but this statement is like saying that since hummingbirds flap their wings and fly, all I need to do is flap my arms and I, too, can fly.
Sadly, there would not be any "Democrat help." The days of Henry Jackson, DP Moynihan, Joe Lieberman, and dare I say it(?), even Hubert Humphrey are long since passed into oblivion.
That is one of the very, very, very few things he has done that I approve of.
He’ll be at his most dangerous from Nov 5th to Jan 20th... watch and see.
Try to convince 95% of the AA population of that.
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