sam guest instructor todd j political science impacts the midterm congressional elections has on the presidential election in tabin the midterm congressional elections the republican party took control of the house while the senate remains a democrat majority with the house being in control by the the republicans it is going to be difficult if not impossible to pass legislation without some sort of compromise with the economy at a low and the unemployment rate still high the people of the united states are looking for government help to strengthen the economy president obama has tried to strengthen the economy with the million dollar stimulus bill matt bai a new york times reporter states in his article about the president debt busting issue may force obama off fence and in virtually every case he has satisfied pretty much no one with the presidential election in two years both parties will need to gain the approval of the american people to succeed in the election tabthe outcome of the midterm congressional election shows that the presidential election will be based upon which party can demonstrate that they are going to help the economy grow and act upon the self interests of the people tabmany are attempting to draw upon historical context to predict the outcome of the next presidential election some people believe that obama will be a one term president marc pascal a writer for the moderate voice in economy law politics and society states in his opinion piece obama will be a one term president is not a parallel to or to any other noteworthy year identified by various pundits across the political spectrum what worked sufficiently well in the s and the s for presidents reagan and clinton will not be appropriate for the myriad of challenges facing our nation in and beyond pascal relates obama to be more like presidents hoover and carter who were one term presidents pascal compares president obama with hoover by stating the start of the great recession began before the presidential elections pascal looks back with president hoover and relates his presidency with obama's contrarily president hoover was elected before the collapse and his efforts over the next years were wholly unsuccessful in extricating the u s from a deep and structural depression this huge failure naturally resulted in the election of franklin delano roosevelt and the democrats running things for the next years tabin pascal's analysis he concluded that looking back to president hoover's presidency as well with president carter's presidency obama would suffer the same fate as they did by only serving one term as president however not everyone agrees with pascal's conclusion historical analysis shows that this can swing in obama's favor tabusing the opposite argument you could say that president clinton took a huge blow in the midterm elections of his presidency with a loss of house seats along with eight senate seats thus putting clinton's presidential agenda in jeopardy with president clinton's popularity down in the midterm elections president clinton was able to meet halfway with the republican legislature allowing him to win the presidential election also in the biggest loss in midterm election history president franklin d roosevelt lost house seats and six senate seats with roosevelt suffering tremendous losses in his midterm election he was still able to run and continue in office for his third and fourth terms another president who won re election after a huge blow in the midterm election is harry truman president truman lost house seats and senate seats during the midterm election but still won re election in with president obama loosing a historical house seats and six senate seats in the midterm elections history shows it does not mean president obama will loose re election in due to losses in the last midterms tabthe economy in the united states is currently at a standstill with president obama signing the stimulus bill the free falling economy was saved from further peril people in the united states are not satisfied with the way that obama is handling the economy updated on december obama has approval ratings of percent strong support but he still faces a high percent disapproval rasmussum reports with obama having such a high percentage of those against his policies he will need to attempt to meet with the republicans halfway on upcoming legislation at this moment in time obama is having little luck compromising with the republicans tamara lytle quotes president obama in an aarp bulletin we're going to need to work together democrats and republicans and independents to get it all done but you know what