>>And I stand firm that if I had been able to hit a golf ball as Tiger could, I'd have been a zillilonaire.
>>Alas, I couldn't and I'm not because they don't pay for what might have been.
>>You posited actual election results - not might-have-been results - as a verdict on a single topic. They either are or they aren't,
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>>Hmmmm. I would say that the midterms were a resounding vote against Obama and his policies. Even the dems did not want Obama to campaign for them - he was toxic.
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>That's certainly a valid conclusion.
>If it is, then his re-election was even more of a vote in favor his policies.

Many of his policies had not "hit the fan", so to speak, in 2012. So he was able to campaign more on his charisma, and on (quite frankly) the fact that Mitt Romney was not a strong candidate who did not go on the attack enough.

Again, I realize that any point after an election, people can easily say, "wow, if the election had been today, people would have voted differently", But Nov 2013, just one year later, represented such a huge and significant flashpoint when the country got to see Obama and his supporters in action.