For Democrats, Election Day was judgment day, with voters acting as jurors — standing up and finding a rash of candidates guilty for their association with President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
- "People had to have somebody to blame," Chuck Drake, a voter in Clintonville, Ohio, said Wednesday morning in a snap assessment of midterm elections in which Republicans took back control of the U.S. House, picked up at least six seats in the Senate and assumed control of many state governments.
As the president himself was acknowledging Wednesday that his party took a "shellacking," voters said the reason was simple: It was all about "people being generally unhappy with the direction of Obama's administration," Drake said.
The guilt-by-association theme surfaced repeatedly in exit polls and interviews with voters.
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