Doesn't every president decimate his party down the ballot?
Okay...well some do worse than others. Fun fact: Eisenhower's well-regarded today, but he hurt Republicans down the ballot (mainly because of the '58 elections) worse than Dubya did.
Agree almost completely. But FDR immediately comes to mind as a sort of counterexample...
The Democrat's margins in Congress were narrowed significantly during his tenure, but that's largely because they were so big at one point they had nowhere to go but down. Remember, Republicans came within a hair of a House majority in 1942 and actually won the popular vote.
Democrats still had a healthy, if reduced, congressional majority at the end of Kennedy-Johnson, but their numbers in governorships were down significantly.
