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maxx
Obama never had a real majority in Congress. He had a lot of blue dogs from the South who were financed by the same corporatist interests that financed the Republicans. You know, those people who think like Haley Barbour that the African Americans' struggle for equality was just a cakewalk.
Revisionist history.
We were told that the November 2008 election results were proof that"....a realignment has taken place in American politics -- a political realignment Obama both helped to forge and rode to a seven-point victory. Yet this realignment is much more than one election of one President. It is a sign of this realignment that the Democratic Party in 2008 won more votes for its Presidential candidate for the fourth time in the last five elections. While most visible at the Presidential level, this realignment is also deeply anchored in party identifications, in state Congressional delegations, in statewide election results, and most deeply, in America's changing issue and demographic landscapes that create long-term structural advantages for Democratic candidates and causes."
Why, there was even a best-selling book written about the 2008 election results:What happened? Obama, Pelosi and Reid let their press clippings go to their heads and over-reached from the start, rather than solidifying their legislative majority through slow and steady incremental gains.