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Associated Press has finally faced the reality of the presidency of Barack Obama and the “Obama coalition” that swept him into office: “What worked for Obama just did not work for this party.”
“In boasting about his tenure in the White House, President Barack Obama often cites numbers like these: 15 million new jobs, a 4.9 percent unemployment rate and 74 months of consecutive job growth,” writes the AP’s Lisa Lerer in a devastating post-mortem on the Obama presidency. “There’s one number you will almost never hear: More than 1,030 seats.”
That sobering number is the total of all of the seats — including Congress, state legislatures, and governorships — lost by the Democratic Party over Obama’s two terms. – READ MORE