2009 Senate Elections

[Torrere]

Originally Posted by tw

Once coattails had relevance. In the past 20 years, that has not been true. If you could say the entire Republican party screwed up, then that logic may be valid. However a president does not appear to have the same influence on other elections as was true 30 years ago.

As I recall, both the Republican victory in 2002 and the Republican defeat in 2006 were attributed to George W. Bush's coattails.