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Obama says the "shellacking" the Dems got similar to Reagan and Clinton

President Obama takes his last question of the presser: Will he be willing to change his leadership style? "Folks didn't have any complaints about my leadership style when I was running around Iowa for a year," Obama says....

Noting that Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton have had similar experiences, Obama jokes, "That's not something that I'm recommending to future American presidents, that they take a shellacking like I did last night."...
Read entire article at Politico