conservative media messaging in particular on health reform. and then it was time to vote again. and in history, of course, the first congressional election after a new president is elected, the pendulum almost always swings back the other way, against the party of the president. and with a victory as big and as sweeping as obama and the democrats had had ten years ago tonight, obama won in 2008 by 8.5 million votes. he more than doubled mccain in the electoral college. democrats had already had a majority in congress before that election. they added another 21 seats that night. they went up to a super majority in the senate. when the pendulum had swung that far to the democrats in 2008, followed by two incredibly hard years thereafter, and one of the biggest policy lifts ever with health reform, in 2010 of the