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Coincidence that just happened a few times. a look back at history, if you will. we show you what were looking at. at the last five two-term presidents, truman, eisenhower, reagan, clinton and bush. truman, even though he wasnt elected in 1944, he took over after fdr took over five months in to his term. nixon is out before he resigned before the second midterm shallacking. you can see in that midterm in 1950, democratic party lost 28 seats in the house and 6 in the senate. in ikes second term, ...

Party. staying even in the senate and then president bush was hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, 6 in the senate and more importantly control of the both houses were gone from the republicans. a couple things to note here. the 1998 election, of course, under president clinton marked the only time a sitting two-term president saw gains in the second midterm in the modern era. in addition, two-term presidents typically have a bad midterm and one not so bad. trumans party was much wo...

7%, double when he was first elected six years earlier. in the 2006, the u.s. was in to the iraq war and facing heavy rye lens and combination for president bush and his party. what about more president obama and the democrats? should they worry? i say maybe not so much. in 2010, the party lost 63 seats in the house, 6 seats in the senate. president obama famously called it an shallacking and it was. the likely scenario, limits the losses like reagan did or add seats like clinton. president obam...

His party and staying even in the senate. president bush got hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, six in the senate and control of both houses were gone from the republicans. the 1998 election was the only time a two-term president saw gains. in addition two-term presidents typically have one really bad midterm and one not so bad. truman was much worse in 46 than in 50. reagan, split decision after losing big in the house and gaining a senate seat in 1982, republicans lost seven sea...

Its a bedrock of conventional wisdom, or is it just a made-up thing? second-term presidents supposedly struggling in his second midterm s it real or a coincidence? first who was the first president and who was the most recent president to officially start a term on a sunday? the answer and more coming up on "the daily rundown." ♪ [ woman ] too weak. wears off. been there. tried that. ladybug body milk? no thanks. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. eucerin professional rep...

During the 2006 midterms, the u.s. was three years into the iraq war and facing heavy sectarian violence which hurt president bush and his party what are the lessons for president obama and the democrats? i say maybe not so much. heres why. in 2010 the party lost 63 seats in the house, 6 seats in the senate. president obama called it a shellacking. there is reason to think he will do better this time around. president obama is almost guaranteed to do better in the house. hard to do worse than wh...

Chris, the importance of hispanic voters, the importance of younger voters is they dont all vote in midterm elections, but in a general election for president, you have all of a sudden all the negatives in the republican party blossoming into the most important things in the party. so its the position against legalization of people that have been here a while, its the position on abortion rights, all the issues that affect young people, all the issues that are salient with minorities and young p...

Michael bennet is now a full term united states senator because the electorate changed in colorado even in a midterm. so this stuff, it is -- youre just suddenly protecting shrinking and shrinking turf. they do have to come to realize, and i think that thats -- thats whats going to make, for instance, watching the immigration debate -- i somehow believe republicans are going to go en masse but maybe they wont. if it ends up being more divisive and ends up being harder to get done and the republi...

The republican party wlos soming into the most important things in the party. so its position against legalization of people that have been here a while, its position on abortion rights, all the issue that is affect young people, all the issues that are salient with minorities and young people theyre wrong on. >> chris, here is the thing. if they just sit here and say, i have heard this from some republicans, you know what? well be fine in 2014, you know, because turnout wont be the same, it wil...

And theyre not going to be successful in beating back workers. were going to show that its actually energizing our base. and people are saying that theyre angry about it. >> what was the name you put out? what was his name? dick what? >> dick devos. >> thats the amway guy. >> yep, thats right. >> and governor snyder seems to have -- seems to pay more attention to him than he does the citizens of the state. and thats very unfortunate. >> moving forward here, the only option you have here is 2014....