New York Times: ‘Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?’ #FakeNews

Comedy Gold: “Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?”, by Stanley B. Greenberg and Anna Greenberg, the New York Times

At NRO,  Deroy Murdock writes:

…As Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker, and more rickety than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day 2016 — thanks to Obama and his ideas:

• Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
• U.S. Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
• U.S. House seats slid from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
• Democrats ran the U.S. Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
• Governorships fell from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
• State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent.
• Trifectas (states with Democratic governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.

Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, eight U.S. presidents have served at least two terms or bowed to their vice-presidents due to death or resignation. Among them, Obama ranks eighth in total state legislative seats that his party preserved during his tenure. Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces the 843 net seats that Republicans yielded under President Dwight David Eisenhower.

By this measure, Ronald Reagan is No. 1. While he was president, Republicans gainedsix statehouse seats.

In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best…(read more)

Source: NRO