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63. And?

Suddenly what Bill Clinton says is considered legitimate on DU now? Someone who it seems a majority of DUers call a "turd way, Wall Street humping, DLC, corporatist Democrat"?

Congressional elections have traditionally had a low turnout during non-Presidential election years and -

In any event, if 2014 follows the trend Democrats are almost certain to lose seats in the House and Senate this November, and many pollsters predict as much. As Knight notes, since 1842 the President’s party has lost seats in [font color="red"]40 of 43 midterms[/font] — the exceptions being 1934, 1998 and 2002. (Whether Republicans will pick up enough Senate seats to take control of that chamber is a much closer question.) And as Campbell concluded in his paper, “For the congressional candidates of the president’s party, the return to normalcy at the midterm represents a loss.”

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/07/24/voter-turnout-always-drops-off-for-midterm-elections-but-why/

The AWB was not some sort of catalyst with respect to the Democratic losses in Congress in the '90s. And the fact that the GOP gawd Ronald Wilson Reagan supported the AWB, underscores any major significance of it with respect to influencing the election the year it passed.

Instead, Gingrich and the RW media foisted the "Contract With America" onto the electorate and a majority of the voters who bothered to show up and vote in many congressional districts, bought that pile of detritus.