NY Times: President Obama says the Democrats were doomed from the start.
Mr. Obama, calling in to a Hartford radio show on Tuesday as voters across the country were casting their ballots, had the distinct sound of a man preparing to rationalize a major defeat. His party started with a historic disadvantage, the president argued in the interview with WNPR, noting that many of the Senate seats up for grab this year are in states unfriendly to Democrats.
“This is probably the worst possible group of states for Democrats since Dwight Eisenhower,” Mr. Obama said, conceding aloud a reality that his closest advisers have long noted in private.
“There are a lot of states that are being contested where they just tend to tilt Republican, and Democrats are competitive, but they tend to tilt that way,” Mr. Obama said.
It was a striking comment for a president who first gained prominence nationally in a speech a decade ago in which he savaged “pundits” who “like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states.”
“There are a lot of states that are being contested where they just tend to tilt Republican, and Democrats are competitive, but they tend to tilt that way,” Mr. Obama said.
Rat code-speak for we just cant win this time by cheating.
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