2010: Keith warned us.

[DeeDeeNY]

http://www.today.com/id/39875964/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/olbermann-if-tea-party-wins-america-loses/#.UkzOCxaKSRo

[gopiscrap]

1. Yup he sure did

[onehandle]

2. As always... Thank you Obama voters who sat on their asses in 2010.

Don't worry. I don't expect to see you in 2014 either.

[budkin]

3. There's an election in 2014?

[msanthrope]

5. Was this sarcasm? nt

[bunnies]

6. How fucked is it that you have to ask.

[msanthrope]

7. I know. I can't tell. nt

[bunnies]

8. Me neither. Scary. nt

[davidn3600]

10. Voter turnout in mid-terms is never what it is in presidential elections

And the president's party usually loses. That's the typical pattern.

So yes, we are very unlikely to win back the House in 2014. People just dont normally get excited about mid-terms.

[onehandle]

11. Yes, but it's particularly pathetic when a Obama's groundswell doesn't show up.

A lot of first time voters.

Proving that they know nothing about government, they just wanted the man.

They got the man and basically made him a lame duck with a veto, two years in.

Giving the chance to the GOP to gerrymander the House, temporarily permanently.

As bad as Nader voters in Florida in 2000.

[Fumesucker]

4. There were plenty of posters on DU warning the Democrats too

The casual, sometime Democratic voters have to be pumped up to get them to turn out in the midterms, it's a well known phenomenon in American elections.

[DeeDeeNY]

9. 2010 was an especially bad year

A census year that made the crazy gerrymandered election districts even worse