Good post - not the awful Vanities that have been plaguing FR for a week. Thanks.
Clinton -9 /-50
W.Bush -4 / -28
Reagan -7 / -31
It is always important to keep things in context.
Most of the elections we lost were close ones.
A combination of factors led to the GOP defeat.
There is too much pessimism on these threads as if we were crushed.
Thank you for posting this.
Stats. I'm supposed to feel good about that? The facts are that dems have the congress and are likely to make legislation in opposition to conservative principles: smaller government, less costly government, less intrusive government - and likely with help from our president. I'm not taking heart in that. This is a wake-up call to the republican party and if it doesn't respond in keeping to conservative principles, it's a wake-up call to conservatives to find another means.
Perspective yes, but that doesn't mean we should not
route out rinos and moderates.
Bump for later.
Thank you so much! I've beeen wondering about this, but didn't know where to look or how to search for it.
Bookmarked!
The ghastly (for the Dems) loss in 1894 was due to a Depression (it was also partly because the Dems were also overrepresented by their usual numbers in the 1892 Congress). It was the single-worst numerical loss for a political party in the House in 1 election since 1789. The GOP, though, lost 48 of those seats in the following 1896 McKinley election (most of those were in usually Dem areas which elected a mess of one-term fluke Republicans).
It's also worth pointing out that many political historians/analysts tend to regard the 1994 elections as a "6th year" election in reverse. 2006 was obviously a return to usual, past historic trends. Presuming we win the Presidency in '08, we shouldn't have another "disaster" again until 2014.
The public was not outraged because of GWB's management of the Iraq war ?
You mean we may negotiate with Iran and Syria about Iraq because of a normal historical 6 year itch loss ?
Please.
Someone tell GWB !
bookmarking for future reference.
Thanks Tarnsman.
My question is: how do you get that to format so nicely spaced? I can't post stats for the life of me.
Does anyone know just what it was he squandered all this political capital on? I don't think it was for the next election. Maybe he used it to help pay for all the earmarks our senators attached to the spending bills he never vetoed.
Good research.
FYI- Coolidge 1926 should be in bold since he had become President upon the death of Harding (and elected in 1924).
Nice post and very informative... Regarding us thumping Spain and the people approving: that's back when the media was pulling for America in its foreign conflicts, and believed in our purpose and principles. Not sure we can ever count on that again.
Oh, yeah: in 1958, Ike faced pretty big recession and a bunch of strikes back when labor was a real factor.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I appreciate the information...thanks for the research!