Some critics within the Democratic Party are saying that Obama did nothing to help those in tight Congressional races. He didn't even record robo-calls for them, which wouldn't have taken much of his time, they complain.
Let's look at this. We don't know why he didn't. But . . .
What we do know is that almost every close race in both the House and Senate was won by a Democrat. And many of those races were won because of the Obama campaign's superlative ground game -- the registration of new voters and getting out the vote on election day.
The down-ticket races benefited from this far more than people getting one more robo-call in this super-saturated political season. It was unprecedented and highly effective. The opposition was simply stunned at the magnitude and efficiency of the Obama operation.
So don't say that Obama didn't help the down-ticket races.
Ralph
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ReplyDeleteOnly one Democratic candidate for the senate, in a state which Obama carried, lost to the Republican. That was Rep. Shelly Berkley of Nevada, who lost her bid for the senate, but she was under an ethics committee investigation in the House for allegedly using the influence of her office to benefit her physician-husband's dialysis clinic.
So, with that exception, states that Obama carried, the Dem candidates for senate also won. Coattails, I believe it's called.