It's on the verge of controlling the White House, the House and the Senate. Within two years, we lost nearly 700 state legislative seats, 63 seats in the House, and six seats in the Senate. First, midterm elections are almost always brutal for the President's party, especially when that party controls everything. Shortly after Inauguration Day in 2009, with President Obama's favorability at 69%, I remember his new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, addressing an already jittery House Democratic Caucus about the 2010 midterm elections. The Democratic Governors Association is embarking on a state-of-the-art, in-depth research and mobilization effort to win back middle-class voters (full disclosure, I'm an adviser to that effort).

Source: CNN January 17, 2017 15:50 UTC