Admittedly, the recent midterm losses suffered by the Republicans in the House and Senate, as well as gubernatorial and legislative losses in states across the country are devastating for the party, and historic in nature. But while gloating about the results, the liberal media has mostly left out the perspective that the 1994 and 2010 midterms would provide, and on CNN's Inside Politics Sunday, host Manu Raju followed that script.
As of Sunday, Democrats had flipped 42 House seats, and 7 in the Senate, with some still being counted, and they picked up 5 Governor's mansions.
Raju began his closing segment with a statement that seemed steeped in emotion.
RAJU: To find any American election comparable to this week's historic midterms, you need to go back more than half a century to 1974.
True enough, if you are only interested in looking at midterms where Democrats made huge gains, as was apparently the case with Raju.
RAJU: Back then, the American people delivered Democrats a decisive victory amid anger over corruption, war, and soaring prices. Sound familiar? Well, Richard Nixon had just resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal less than three months before the vote.
And like President Trump's rock-bottom approval ratings today, Nixon's favorability had completely cratered by that time, with his impeachment and removal from office a real possibility. CNN surely would have loved Trump resigning in August this year.
And "Soaring prices"? The last annual inflation rate before Election Day was 3.7 percent. That's not "soaring." CNN & Co. would have sent out "fact checkers" if anyone said if we had President Kamala. It was over 10 percent in 1974.
So just like now, Americans then unleashed a tidal wave of discontent across the country, sweeping away Republicans, flipping 43 House seats and three in the Senate to the Democrats. That's not too far off from today's numbers, which could grow even larger.
Raju certainly could have mentioned that in 1994, Bill Clinton's first midterm election, Republicans swept away Democrats, flipping 54 House seats and 8 in the Senate to the Republicans. It was the first time in 40 years that any party simultaneously flipped both chambers and ended a government trifecta. They also added 10 new Governors.
He could have mentioned that in 2010, Obama's first midterms, Republicans flipped 63 seats in the House, the largest number since 1858. How's that for historic? They also added 6 in the Senate, and six new Governors. He did not, instead he continued on about 1974. It's like he thinks only Democrats watch CNN. Mostly true.
RAJU: It wasn't just about Watergate, but also anger over the Vietnam War and sky-high inflation that drove the historic results. Much as backlash over Iran and higher prices drove the electorate just last Tuesday.
Had Raju been presenting a comprehensive history lesson, he could have noted that in 1994 a major issue was opposition to Clinton's plan for universal health care. Sound familiar Manu? And among the issues in 2010 were the economy, objection to Obamacare, and the war in Afghanistan. A familiar ring once again.
Raju then led into a clip of the man who won the next presidential election following the 1974 midterms, Jimmy Carter in 1976.
CNN Via Snap StreamRAJU: And just as this year's midterms are igniting the 2028 presidential race and reshuffling of the electoral map, the 1974 election put Democrats on the path to the White House just two years later, propelling a virtually unknown peanut farmer to the presidency.
JIMMY CARTER CLIP: Our country's lived through a time of torment. It's now time for healing. We want to have faith again. We want to be proud again. We just want the truth again. It's time for the people to run the government and not the other way around.
RAJU: Only time will tell if this week's stunning results will also reverberate for years to come.
For years to come? As far as presidencies go, Manu, must know that following the midterm blowouts in 1994 and 2010, both Clinton and Obama won reelection, and Jimmy Carter was a one term miserable failure with "soaring prices," followed by 12 years of a Republican in the White House, two terms of Ronald Reagan, followed by George H.W. Bush. Inconvenient facts that step all over the left wing dream of years long reverberation.
Obama called his 2010 midterm losses, "a shellacking". One might assume that alone would make it a natural part of the current midterm discussions. The left wing media won't allow that to happen. This is CNN.
