@John I’m not telling you anything strange. Midterms are based on turnout. Parties win when their coalition is fired up, lose when portions of their coalition are demoralized. I’m not saying there was some hidden preference for full social democracy. I’m saying a lot of people who had voted for Obama felt let down and didn’t rouse themselves for the midterms. 1/

@John Structurally it’s very normal for first-term midterms to be bad, because fresh candidates fire up voters with promise when running for election then voters are disappointed because reality is hard. It’s not some preference of left vs right. It’s both parties. Obama endured this phenomenon turbo-charged, both because he ran so inspirationally, and governed so disappointingly. /fin