Obama Midterm News Today

There are three congressional districts in play here that you should watch closely on Election Night in order to see how the rest of the country will vote.

Yes, he held firm on independents but hes upside down with independents. thats a problem because that was a huge part of his winning coalition. >> lets put the president up here with an approval rating. president bush was 88%. obama was at 55% at this point in his first year. they lost 67 seats in the obama midterm. joe biden was 50%, cloint 47%, and trump lost a ton. if we do something, we can get that up to 52 or 53. we live in a very different climate next year than we do if its at 50 or it s...

Because you were born with a thyroid condition or you had a lump taken out of your breast or you have diabetes or arthritis or something. so its real health insurance for real people that you can actually use that covers tens of millions more people in this country. oh, the horror. thats what republicans decided was the end of the world when barack obama was president. thats a big part of how they did so exceedingly well in the 2010 midterms. well, now, were about to have the next first midterm ...

An icon of the civil rights movement, targeted near the capitol by opponents of health care reform. >> last time i saw anything like that was back in 1960. >> in a separate incident, representative barney frank, who is openly gay, was heckled with anti-gay slurs. >> im not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket. >> debates have been especially passionate from the start. raucous town halls, talk of death panels, and a chance to bring the president down. a bunch of finger-pointi...

Anti-gay slurs. >> im not a lobbyist with all kind of money to stuff in your pocket. >> debates have been especially passionate from the start. raucous town halls, talk of death panels, and a chance to bring the president down. a bunch of finger-pointing at the so-called tea party movement, antitax hikes and big government, and today insisting its loosely alined members have nothing to do with the slurs. that was 2010. heading into the first obama midterm, the first congressional election after ...

Well have those numbers coming up in a couple of minutes. we have former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul joining us here tonight to help us make sense of what just happened in moscow with vladimir putin essentially proclaiming the end of america as a superpower, and president trumps national security adviser going right over to meet with him after that, shaking his hand and smiling and telling him everything is fine. it was really weird. but this election coming up in two weeks is called a ...

Thats what republicans decided was the end of the world when barack obama was president. thats a big part of how they did so exceedingly well in the 2010 midterms. well, now were about to have the next first midterm election following a new president being elected, and now here is the problem for republicans. here is the fox news channel national poll from this past week. question 17, quote, im going to read you the names of several individuals, items and groups. please tell me whether you have ...

Took control of congress in 2010 after that midterm, when in the presidents memorable words, the democrats got their shellacking that year, hatred of obamacare, top of the lungs republican opposition to every element of obamacare, that became sort of the main thing that the republican party stood for and did in washington. we actually stopped counting at this show when the republican-controlled congress took its 70th -- not 17th, 70th vote to repeal obamacare. they never actually did repeal the ...

Opposition to healthcare reform, to obamacare, the affordable care act, right, that took on a life of its own and became an almost feral, wild part of republican and conservative political identity in that era. and when the republican party took control of congress in 2010 after that midterm, when, in the presidents memorable words, the democrats got their shellacking that year, hatred of obamacare, top of the lungs republican opposition to every element of obamacare, that became sort of the mai...

Smiling and telling him everything is fine. it was really weird. but this election coming up in two weeks is called a midterm election, because it happens halfway through a presidents four-year term in office. and the first midterm election, the first congressional election after a president is elected to the white house for the first time, its almost always a rough one for the presidents party. so like the last time we had a congressional election like this, it was two years after a new preside...