To @DonLemon and the esteemed panel bleating that Trump was on the ballot in Kentucky 🙄:
2018: Obama’s return to the campaign trail might not be very helpful for Democratic candidates, wsj.com/articles/third… via @WSJ
2018: Obama’s return to the campaign trail might not be very helpful for Democratic candidates, wsj.com/articles/third… via @WSJ
What we do know is that Mr. Obama has been recruited to do something he was never that good at while president: getting other Democrats elected.
Mr. Obama won the presidency in 2008, but Democrats lost their House majority in the 2010 midterms. He won re-election in 2012, but his party lost the Senate two years later.
In both midterm elections, the president proved unable to transfer his personal appeal to other Democrats running for office. He fared no better in trying to pass the baton to Mrs. Clinton two years ago.
During the Obama era, Democrats in state government went the way of their counterparts in Congress.
According to the National Conference of State Legislators, the Democrats lost a net 13 governorships and 816 state legislative seats on Obama’s watch, which is more than any president’s party since Eisenhower.
As the political website FiveThirtyEight once observed, “Barack Obama won the White House, but Democrats lost the country.”
