Obama had the House and Senate for the first 2 years of his administration and NOTHING got done. Things got worse.
The economy took the downturn in 2006 when Pelosi and Reid gained control of both Houses.
The GOP failed to get this message out. They only started to use this message after Ryan was picked as the VP. Before that, they went years without responding to these false attacks.
And, if the economy really is not Bush's fault, why did Bush say nothing or try to correct the so-called false statements, is what many independenents and moderates asked.
Major communication problem on our side.
Paul Ryan was the answer, but it came too late.
I said many times on here in the last few weeks that Romney never even tried to argue with Obama when Obama said to his face multiple times in the debates that Romney is trying to "return to the same Bush policies" that caused the economic crisis. He either needed to say the Democrats were equally or more responsible, or offer some explanation as to why the mortgage crisis occurred and why his policies would not lead to the same thing.
The Democrats will win the House in 2014.