Jonathan Dickinson

Some things have happened to the Democrat Party over the past few years that I've kept an interested eye on, things that have not received aa lot of publicity. Since 2010, while Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi have been the faces of their Party, over 1600 elected seats nationwide have been turned from Democrat to Republican; from the federal level to state, and in local races like mayor and city council where party affiliation is identified. It's the biggest, most widespread transfer of political power in American history, and it's not even close.

Since Barack Obama was elected in 2008, up to and including the 2016 election, Democrats have lost 62 seats in the House and 12 in the Senate, they've lost 13 governorships (from 29 down to 16), they used to control 62 of 99 state legislative chambers, and now control only 30. Twenty states share power between the parties in their legislatures, 24 states are completely controlled by Republicans, and only 5 are left where Democrats fully run the joint. But what have we been told for eight years?

Barack Obama is One of the Most Popular Presidents Ever!

You have to ask yourself, is Barack Obama - and are his policies, his agenda and his accomplishments - really all that popular, and if so, why has his agenda caused so much trouble for those in the national Democrat Party? A poll that came out on Monday said that he's got 57% popularity right now, but keep in mind that the same pollsters who three weeks before the election declared that Hillary Clinton was going to win by 12%, by14%, are the ones who conducted that poll on Monday too. And every presidential popularity poll since 2008.

Barack Obama's legacy has yet to be written but, while I'm sure Democrat historians (we have no other kind right now) will treat him quite well, the devastation that has happened in the Democrat Party while he's been in office (focusing like a laser on that very legacy) will be an important and historically significant part.

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