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>> reporter: a government shutdown that hurt republicans mostly but everybody a little and the granddaddy of all agenda busters. >> that's on me. >> reporter: the incompetent rollout of the affordable care act which hurt the president a lot. >> there was a time when i was a young invisible. after five years in this office, people don't call me that anymore. >> reporter: politically, 2013 was the coolest year for the president. he has the poll numbers to prove it and an agenda that mostly didn't happen. >> i will faithfully execute -- >> reporter: presidential second terms are so often down hil...