Karl Rove wasn't too happy about the way the White House dismissed the Most Important Off-Off-Year Elections In United States History, and amid a weird counterfactual analysis in which he reverse-extrapolated a few races in three states and applied them to the 2008 election results, he let Fox News viewers know it, saying: Oh, well, then! Let's take a trip back to the year 2007, where we'll find Rove being dismissive, and -- I guess? -- contemptuous!
He said it was a normal off-year election and had little to do with the unpopularity of President Bush and then-GOP majority Congress.If you look at the sweep of American history, the White House party has lost an average of 28 seats in the House and five in the Senate. We lost 30 in the House and six in the Senate, Rove said on Fox. We lost. There's no doubt about it, but it was a close loss.So, if and when that sweep of American history returns to reduce Democratic congressional majorities in 2010, will it be contemptuous to dis
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Posted: 11/4/2009
