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Originally Posted by zamler
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Any party will look bad when you compare them to their recent high water mark. There's a reason that virtually every single 2 term President loses a lot of seats over the length of their term.
In 2008 the Democrats won the White House by 10 million votes, held 57 of 100 Senate seats, won 59% of the seats in congress, had 29 of 50 Governors, had both the House in Senate in 17 states, and at least one of the two bodies in 41 States.
By comparison the Republicans just lost the Presidential popular vote by 2+ million votes, lost ground in both the Senate and the House and now hold 51-52 of the 100 Senate seats and 55% of congressional seats. They gained a little bit of ground in state elections, but in the end they had only a net gain of 43 out of the 7383 state legislative seats.
So they're still in a far better spot than the Republicans were 8 years ago and they recovered just fine. Look at Canada. A few years ago the Liberal Party was apparently in ruin, but once people got tired of the Conservatives they handed them a majority even though the Liberals' policy changed very little in that time.