Wednesday, November 08, 2006

New Coulter Column

New Coulter column. And she makes a good point (as always):

As Roll Call put it back when Clinton was president: "Simply put, the party controlling the White House nearly always loses House seats in midterm elections" — especially in the sixth year.

     In Franklin D. Roosevelt's sixth year in 1938, Democrats lost 71 seats in the House and six in the Senate.

     In Dwight Eisenhower's sixth year in 1958, Republicans lost 47 House seats, 13 in the Senate.

     In John F. Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson's sixth year, Democrats lost 47 seats in the House and three in the Senate.

     In Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford's sixth year in office in 1974, Republicans lost 43 House seats and three Senate seats.

     Even America's greatest president, Ronald Reagan, lost five House seats and eight Senate seats in his sixth year in office.

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