Rothenberg Assigns Blame

Pollster Stu Rothenberg weighs in for Roll Call on the final days of the 2014 midterm election campaign season. See his dismal-for-Dems conclusion, which is a bit snarky:

Are the Democrats’ losses due to the increasingly partisan nature of our elections and the makeup of the past two Senate classes, or is the president at least partially to blame because he failed to show leadership on key issues and never successfully moved to the political center?
The answer, most obviously, is, “Yes.”

It's his cute way of saying, "Both." Rothenberg warns Obama may lose a near-record number of own-party House members between the two midterm elections, the most since Harry Truman in the post-war era. Then the House was shedding the large Dem majorities FDR built-up during the depression and war years.