Barack Quote by Rush Limbaugh

As a general rule, midterm elections - in both their first terms and their second terms - aren't kind to incumbent presidents, even popular…

— Steve Kornacki

This man [ Donald Trump] won in an electoral landslide.

— John Lewis

Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.

— Steve Kornacki

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his…

— Rush Limbaugh

The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't matter. This…

— Rush Limbaugh

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the…

— David Axelrod

Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a…

— Mark Shields

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible…

— Ross Douthat

Midterms behave very differently than presidential elections. Midterms, for a federal candidate, often times are a referendum on the president, where in presidential years,…

— Mike Coffman

If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr.…

— Nate Silver

American presidential elections usually amount to a series of overcorrections: Clinton begat Bush, who produced Obama, whose lax border policies fueled the rise of…

— Tucker Carlson

The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.

— John Podhoretz