Mid-Term Results: How Can Trump call it a victory?

[dan_s]

How do the mid-term elections compare

HOUSE: Most House Seats Lost by President's Party in Power:

2010 Obama: -63
1994 Clinton: -52
1958: Eisenhower: -48
1974 Ford (Nixon): -48
1966 Johnson: -47
1946 Truman: -45
2006 Bush: -30
1950 Truman: -29
1982 Reagan: -26
2018 Trump: -26

*NY Times data since 1946

SENATE: Although the party that controls the White House has typically lost Senate seats in midterm elections, there’s only been 5 times in the last 105 years that an incumbent President has won seats in the Senate in the off year election. It was the first time since the nation started directly electing senators in 1914 that a party has won control of the House without gaining seats in the Senate.

[grimaldi]

Most of what we hear in the news never makes it into law.

[jmwSeattle]

At the time I studied political science, it was a surveyed conclusion that people purposely split their vote in the belief that they were aiding the separation of powers.

I suspect the dumbing down of the electorate wouldn’t support that thesis anymore, but who knows.

One thing is certain, we won’t get any meaningful research into the phenomenon by the MSM, which is a lazy part of the regime, establishment and deep state.

We have stagnant policy development in the Capital because of the cloture rule which lets off the opposing party from actually backing up their convictions with a filibuster.

If you want to get scared out of your wits, watch Dan Proft on YouTube about the mind-boggling idiocy of political leadership in Illinois, where they have perfected the art of doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.