Reply #100: Clinton did not have a similar Senate majority [View All]

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His majority was at most 57, at the beginning and was 53 at the end. But more importantly he had a vastly more southern and thus conservative, majority.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103rd_United_States_Congress

There were 2 Democratic Senators in TN, AL, LA, and AK. There was one in each of OK, TX, GA, FL, SC, VA, and KY. In comparison, Obama's 60 seat majority had only one seat in each of VA, NC, FL, LA, and AK. Even if you add in Alaska and NE as trouble spots for Obama's majority you then have to add in the two NE Senators we had under Clinton. I will concede that Lieberman was worse under Obama than he was under Clinton. Still, all things equal I would prefer Obama's Senate to Clinton's.