{"id":21364,"date":"2014-11-05T19:51:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21364"},"modified":"2014-11-05T19:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T19:51:50","slug":"soothing-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21364","title":{"rendered":"Soothing Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1934, <a href=\"http:\/\/uspolitics.about.com\/gi\/dynamic\/offsite.htm?site=http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/data\/mid-term_elections.php\">only one President<\/a> has managed to avoid a net loss of seats for his party during his second midterm election. That was Bill Clinton, who gained 5 House seats (and 0 Senate seats) in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Every other President who has had a second term since FDR has lost seats in his second midterm.<\/p>\n<p>W was the only President since FDR with a net gain of seats in his first midterm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1934, only one President has managed to avoid a net loss of seats for his party during his second midterm election. That was Bill Clinton, who gained 5 House seats (and 0 Senate seats) in 1998. Every other President who has had a second term since FDR has lost seats in his second midterm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21365,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21364\/revisions\/21365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}