Democrats Might Have Pulled Off the Biggest Midterm Shock in Decades
Overall, the polls were basically right. It was the vibes that were wrong.
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In 1962, President John F. Kennedy and the Democratic Party took advantage of low inflation and exceptional real-income growth to add three seats to their Senate majority. Sixty years later, no Democratic president with control of the Senate has ever duplicated by picking up Senate seats, or even holding steady, in a midterm election.
