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Newsweek magazine on February 9, 2009, after Barack Obama routed John McCain in the November 2008 presidential election. Democrats picked up eight Senate seats and 21 House seats in that same election, giving them a large majority in the House and a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate. Also, Democrats emerged from the elections controlling twice as many state governments as Republicans.
Barack Obama and the ascending power-brokers in the Democratic Party embraced Big Government far more passionately than Bill Clinton had. Obama led the left wing of the Democratic Party that held a puppy-love crush on socialist governments around the world.