Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN), deputy chair of the DNC, has rattled the left with his unflinching grasp of the obvious: Obama, Ellison claims, deserves blame for Democrat losses during his presidency.
While Obama himself somehow managed to win election twice, his party suffered the loss of
over a thousand Congressional, state, and governor seats. The party, even the left grudgingly admits, was decimated; what the left is less willing to admit is that Obama's policies—policies Americans consistently said put America on the wrong track—played a role in these stunning losses.
Ellison, however, admits that the historic nature of Democrat losses under Obama are not only part of Obama's legacy but are also directly related to and reflective of Obama's poor leadership of the party.