President Obama is still stinging from his party’s major losses in the 2014 midterm election.
In an interview with NPR, Obama said that Democratic candidates would have fared better if they had run on his record.
This was the exact opposite of the national Democratic strategy. Most candidates ran as far away from Obama as possible, with many of them even refusing offers from the president to campaign on their behalf.
Democrats lost pretty badly with that strategy in 2014, leaving Obama to contend with a Republican House and Senate for his final two years in office. But it’s tough to say that running on Obama’s so-called “great record” would have helped.
Unless you’re counting the number of golf games and executive actions, Obama’s record has mostly been one of government overreach and disapproval from the American people.
