embraced an anti-democrati anti-semitic, and in some case conservative supreme court too away the 50-year-old constitutional right to an abortion we ll get to all of that and more tonight, but we begin a the end of this year, and th historic results for the midterm election democrats gained a seat in the senate, and republicans manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory historically, midterm election have been outright disastrou for a first term president, an the party in power as msnbc political commentator democratic presidents in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 4 house seats in five senate seats. since watergate, the results have looked even worse for the party. democratic presidents in their first midterms have 44 house seats and six senat seats. many political observers o both sides of the aisle were expecting a political bloodbat on the level of, say, 1994 s republican revolution, for instance when democrats lost 52 house seats an