Flashback: Obama: ‘Elections Matter … Votes Matter’

Published November 5, 2014 3:13pm ET



Even before President Obama declared that all his “policies are on the ballot” in Tuesday’s midterm elections, he told Chuck Todd in September’s Meet the Press appearance that “if democrats hold the Senate,” Republicans should get the message that “their strategy of just obstructing and saying no… is an agenda that the American people reject.” The president said that “people want to get stuff done,” and a defeat of Republicans would “[give] us room, hopefully, to find some compromises.”

    Here’s the exchange between Todd and Obama regarding the midterms:

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