Someone should give President Obama a history lesson about mid term elections and how well his party actually performs. Yesterday, Obama shook the Democratic money tree by claiming that his party always gets "cobbered" in mid term elections. The Washington Post corrects the record: While Obama's predictions of Democratic doom are true in the most recent  midterm (see 2010), the president seems to forget the drubbings that Democrats have given Republicans in midterms past over the last 30 years. Democrats trounced Republicans in 2006, picking up 31 House and six Senate seats, enough for a majority in each chamber. In 1998 the party vastly outperformed expectations, picking up five seats in the House and leaving Republicans unable to increase a 10-vote margin in the Senate. Democrats really won big in 1982, claiming 27 House seats, and even bigger in 1986, when they took control of the Senate. While poor showings are often blamed on lackluster...(Read Full Post)