A chastened President Barack Obama admitted he suffered a “shellacking” in this week‘s US mid-term elections, but would not concede the rout represented a massive repudiation of his transformative domestic agenda.
He instead blamed the loss of the House of Representatives and Republican gains in the Senate on deep voter frustration at the sluggish recovery and his failure to clean up the “ugly mess” in Washington.
“It feels bad,” Obama said, digesting his defeat in a White House news conference setting the tone for a looming period of divided government and political confrontation in which he must now chart his 2012 re-election bid.
He took “direct responsibility” for the sorry state of the US economy, saying voters‘ concerns and frustration about the slow pace of progress drove them to oust Democrats and usher in a Republican wave.
“I have got to do a better job, just like everybody else in Washington does,” the president said.
Savouring deep countrywide gains, Republican leaders promised to seek common ground where possible, but warned that voters had sent a signal that Obama‘s reform plans had gone too far and must be halted
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