We keep hearing about how after a new president is elected the president's party almost always loses seats in congress in the next midterm elections.
I wondered if that was true after we elected a president to clean up the Great Depression of the 1930's and the midterm election of 1934.
Anyone paying attention has heard many, many times from the mainstream
press that after a newly elected president...
...the party of the newly elected president always loses seats in the house and senate in the next midterm elections.
Any review of American electoral history will reveal that it is true in most situations the party of the newly elected president does lose seats.
But what happened after a historic downturn - like the Great Depression?
I wondered what did the electorate do after the economic collapse of
1929 that lead to the Great Depression and the landslide election of
FDR and the democrats in 1932.
I did some digging around and here's what I found.
Not only did the party of the newly elected president (FDR) not lose seats,...
...the democrats and FDR actually gained seats in both the house and the senate.
In the house of representatives the dems picked up 9 new seats for a total
of 322 to just 103 seats for the republicans.
And in the senate the dems picked up 9 seats for a new total of 69!
The American Voter Of The 1930's...
It seems like American voters of the 1930's were a lot more savvy than
their counterparts of the 21st century...
...who seem to be impatient to a fault and may be about to return the
congress over to the the very group of people that got us into this
historic mess in the first place.
I'm sure, like us today, they were also very frustrated with the pace of change, from the FDR admin and the dems in congress but it seems like they also...
...knew that it would take more than 2 measly years turn the economy
around after such a cataclysmic economic downturn.
No matter what the national press along with the republicans were saying...
...the American voters of the 1930's were savvy enough to understand that
turning the country's economy around was not going to be a one time event.
They seem to have understood that it was and is a process - and the national republicans were definitely not the answer to the nations' problems.
So it's true, that in most situations, a new president's party loses seats in the next midterm election...
...but not after a cataclysmic historic downturn such a what we're living
through, thanks to the republican caused Great Recession of 2008.
BTW...
We've had recessions before but nothing like the Great Depression
of the 1930's and now we have the Great Recession of 2008.
On both occasions it was a republican president that lead our nation
into a severe economic collapse and then handed the country off
to a democratic president ( as voters were sick of republican antics ) ...
...to clean up the horrific mess they left behind.
I gather that the Americans of the 1930's rightly had quite enough of
the republicans, their economy killing attitudes and policies
and the economic calamity they brought with them and were not
about to trust them anytime soon.
They also understood that a president needs a solid majority in congress willing to support his platform of economic restoration if anything positive is going to get done for the nation and our people.
The last thing America needs at this time in our history...
...is to waste a couple of years by putting a bunch of zany republicans
along with their kaleidoscope of nation killing economic policies...
...back in control of congress to further stifle our nations' march
back to the leading economic nation on the planet.
Republicans Of The 1930's:
Republicans of the early 1930's and their modern day counterparts
do not believe in consumer or worker protections and they obviously don't
believe in nation building now as it is plain for anyone paying attention that...
..they have fought tooth and nail every common sense proposal Obama
and the dems have brought forth to repair our nation.
It's the very same way they fought FDR with his common sense
proposals increasing employment, of social security to protect our elderly
and new labor standards to protect working people.
Republican philosophy then and now is no, no, no and...
...this is after it was they who put the country into the economic mess
we faced in the 1930's and now in the 21st century.
They used the very same excuses republicans use today, such as...
...we can't afford it or it's not right for government to interfere between companies, workers and consumers.
They also called FDR a socialist as they do President Obama today.
One thing republicans of the past and today have in common is they
believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest among us - at all costs to our
economy.
Bottom Line...
We Americans of the early 21st century should take a big hint from our
very savvy forefathers of the 1930's and simply ignore...
...the mainstream press, the zany republicans and all the 10's of millions
of anti-democratic attack ads funded by outside shadow groups...
... go to the polls on November 2nd and elect democrats to help the president help this nation move forward for a better 21st century America.
Our forefathers seemed to have a firm grasp on who was against the president and exactly why they were against the president.
FYI: Opponets of moving our nation forward are spending a unprecedented
5 billion dollars on the midterm elections of 2010 and thanks to the help of outside shadow groups, the republicans are outspending the dems
10 dollars to 1.
Our forefathers also seemed to understand that change is a process and not a one time event so they came out to vote every 2 years.
They also knew it would take a lot more than 2 years to get the nation out
of a historic mess like The Great Depression and now the Great Recession
of 2008.
Despite all the propaganda urging them to put republicans back in
control of congress...
...they ignored it, voted democrat and increased the democratic majorities in congress.
They also realized that the change we needed was not going to come from
the republican party...
...due to it's underlying zany economic philosophies, attitudes and
had good reason to not trust them or their track record anytime soon.
Yes it's true that most new presidents do lose seats in the next congress, but not after
a cataclysmic economic even like what the nation is experiencing now.
American voters in the 1930's got savvy and stayed the course and so should we in the 21st century.
Remember...
A vote for a republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
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All The Best To You & Yours!
JimmyP