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2014 Campaign Roundtable: Democrats Leland Cheung, Steve Kerrigan and Mike Lake discuss Massachusett
Leland Cheung, Steve Kerrigan and Mike Lake, the 2014 Democratic candidates for Massachusetts lieutenant governor, discuss their views on Don Berwick, Martha Coakley and Steve Grossman, the...

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Democrats have known for some time that the terrain would be tough for them in this Novembers midterm elections. But as the general election season officially starts this week, there really are two questions to ponder in determining just how tough: What does history say, and what do the current numbers suggest?

First, the history. Midterm elections can be brutal for an incumbent presidents party, because voters tend to take out on the party whatever frustrations or disappointments in the president have accumulated.

That can be especially true in the midterm of a presidents second term in office. Fatigue can set in with a president who has been in office six years, as well as with his party. And that, of course, is where President Barack Obama and the Democrats find themselves this year.

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But the outcome isnt as uniformly bad for a two-term presidents party as often imagined. Data compiled by the American Presidency Project show that a presidents party often does get walloped in the midterm six years into his presidency. President Franklin Roosevelts Democrats lost 71 House seats and six Senate seats in 1938. President Dwight Eisenhowers Republicans lost 48 House seats and a bruising 13 Senate seats in 1958. Similarly, President George W. Bushs Republicans lost 30 House and six Senate seats in 2006.

But sometimes the results for a presidents party are more mixed in an election in the middle of his second term. President Ronald Reagans Republicans lost just five House seats in 1986, though they suffered a painful eight-seat loss in the Senate. And President Bill Clintons Democrats defied the trend and picked up five House seats while breaking even in the Senate in 1998.

This time, of course, Republicans need to win six Senate seats to take the big prize this November, which is control of the Senate, and they are confident enough that they are starting to lay plans for what they will do if that happens.

That confidence reflects the state of the current political indicators. Data from the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll show that both Mr. Obamas job-approval rating of 40%, as well as the 71% who say the country is on the wrong track, are in the same grim zone as the numbers facing George W. Bush the fall before his party lost all those congressional seats, and control of the House, in 2006.

Conversely, they are markedly worse than the numbers that prevailed as Messrs. Clinton and Reagan entered their happier six-year-election stretch runs. In both cases, the presidents job approval topped 60% at this stage of the cycle.

But history rarely repeats itself in perfect form, so its also worth keeping in mind this caveat that makes 2014 unpredictable: In the years when the presidents party takes a drubbing six years in, the opposition party has never been as unpopular in its own right as Republicans are with the general public right now.

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The corporate raider, played by Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney in 2012, is once again the Democrats favorite campaign villain.

This time, the partys broadcast ads feature at least nine Republican Senate candidates whom Democrats are trying to link to the shutdown of factories and loss of jobs overseas. When the candidate has no business record, the ads attack the billionaire Koch brothers, major Republican donors in this years elections.

The strategy harnesses a current of national anxiety over vanishing American middle-class jobs and displaced workers, and its focused on battleground states that include struggling manufacturing powerhouses like North Carolina and Michigan.

Outsourcing is second only to Medicare and Social Security as a Democratic ad theme, according to Senate Majority PAC, a group tied to the partys Senate leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.

Yet while Democratic strategists say its an effective fundraising tactic, it may be a harder sell to voters. Romney was depicted by Democrats as a job cutter based on his time at private equity firm Bain Capital. Many Republican candidates this year, including Joni Ernst in Iowa and Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, lack obvious ties to companies sending jobs offshore.

And while Charles and David Koch are among the biggest underwriters of Republican campaigns in this election through their network of political spending groups, polls show that many Americans dont even know them.

Its awfully difficult to explain who the Kochs are and what their relationship is to the Republican candidates, said Peter Fenn, a Democratic consultant who advised the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John Kerry.

The Kochs and the business record of their global array of petroleum, chemical, agriculture and mineral-services companies is a theme in Senate campaigns and three House races covering 10 states, according to Kantar Medias Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks political advertising.

Rob Tappan, a Koch Industries spokesman, said the ads are politically motivated attempts to mislead voters and smear the hard-working employees of Koch Industries. Koch has made tough but necessary decisions to close sites due to domestic and global market conditions, he said.

Sending jobs overseas is a Democratic theme in Colorado, where political ads say U.S. Representative Cory Gardner, a Republican challenging Democratic Senator Mark Udall, is being funded by the Kochs.

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