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Efforts are very strong but also says the unconventional wisdom the president's, you know, second midterm election is usually bad for his party. he's saying that this six-year itch is going to be unfounded. david, are you surprised by the fact that the president wants to put up that much collateral, put up that much political capital to see 2014, maybe swing a different way against the six-year itch? >> i'm not surprised at all. don't forget, i worked in the clinton white house in 1998, when for the first time in roughly 70 years, the party that held the white house actually picked up seats in...

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 ...

Each have. jim deminute going outside of the senate into something that's out in the think tank world. we're going to have more of this. we'll have more from the gaggle coming up. plus, the six-year itch. it's a bed rom of conventional wisdom. is it just a made-up thing? second term president, supposedly struggling in his second midterm. we'll let you know whether we think it's real or simply a coincidence. the deep dive is next. first, a special trivia question. who was the first president and who was the most recent president to officially start a term on a sunday? the answer and more is com...

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 ...

Well, as we get closer to the next midterm e lexzs, you'll likely hear more about the so called sixz-year itch. it's a theory that the party controlling the white house is big. today, we're taking a 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. let me show you what we're looking at. truman, eisenhower, reagan, clinton and bush. we're including truman because he took over after f.d.r. died. president nixon is out because he resigned before the second midterm sha lacking. she lacking. but let's put up...