Barack Obama's Democratic Party faces being swept from power in Washington by a ‘political earthquake' in tomorrow's U.S. mid-term elections, Sarah Palin claimed Sunday night, reports Daily Mail.
‘You blew it, President Obama,' she taunted during a TV interview. ‘We gave you two years to improve the economy. The message has been sent to Democrats that they blew it.'
Most Americans want a ‘smaller, smarter' government, the former Republican vice presidential candidate added.
Pressure was piling up on Mr Obama as he launched a last-ditch tour of the country ahead of tomorrow's crucial ballot which is being seen as a referendum on his presidency.
Washington analysts were united in their belief the Republicans would come out on top – it was just a question of by how much.
All 435 House of Representatives seats are up for grabs along with a third of the Senate, while 36 states will be choosing new governors.
The Democrat-controlled House – the party has a 39-seat majority – is expected to fall to the Republicans and the fate of the Senate is finely balanced. If there is a Republican landslide, it will pitch the White House into an implacable stand-off with Congress in attempts to push through any more Obama initiatives.
new poll revealed just 51 per cent of Democrats believe Mr Obama should run unopposed for the White House in two years' time. Most of the 47 per cent who say another Democrat should run against him for the next party presidential nomination had backed Hillary Clinton in her doomed primary campaign, the Associated Press-Knowledge Networks study found.
A real Democratic challenge to Mr Obama is unlikely at this stage but the findings underscored how disenchanted his own party has grown. Among American voters, 51 per cent said he deserves to be defeated in November 2012, and 47 per cent support his re-election.
