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Loses big in a two-term president's second midterm. today we're taking a deep dive into whether the six-year itch is real or simply a coincidence that just happened a few times. it's a look back at history, if you will. we'll show what you we're looking at. at the last five two-term presidents. truman, eisenhower, reagan, clinton, and bush. we're including truman because even though he wasn't elected in 1944, he took over after f.d.r. died just three months into his term in 1945. president nixon is out because he resigned before the second midterm shall abbinging. let's put up the numbers. in ...

Let's take a look at our next one. the two most recent examples of midterms. bill clinton's democrats lost 54 house seats and eight senate seats in 1994 before turning the tables about those surprise wins in 1998. both parties said in the 1998 result was due in part, maybe in whole, to the public backlash against republicans who seem too focused on the lewinsky scandal rather than govrping. president bush saw the opposite. had a great first midterm. not so great second one. two republican midterms there. gaining ground in both chambers under bush in 2002. a 9/11 halo effect, if you will, befor...

President clinton, of course, is the big outliar here, if you'll recall. he didn't lose anything in that second midterm. winning five house seats for his party. staying even in the senate. eight years later in 2006 president bush got hammered. republicans lost 30 seats in the house, six in the senate, but, of course, more importantly, control of both houses were gone from the republicans. a couple of things to note here. the 1988 election under president clinton marked the only time a sitting two-term president saw any kind of gains in his second midterm in the modern era. two-term presidents ...