Rumor has had Barack Obama secretly hoping for a Republican victory in the midterms, a pet conspiracy theory that propagated among House Democrats during the winter of their discontent over ObamaCare. Ever since, pundits have convinced themselves that having a foil in a Republican-controlled House would allow Obama to blame the GOP for any gridlock, and use that to get himself re-elected in 2012. Bill Clinton did something similar when he won a standoff and a government shutdown with Newt Gingrich in 1995. [...] Read the rest »
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