Yes, the party in power typically loses seats in midterm elections, but history can guide us only so far — in the World Series, teams that won game 3 to take a 2-1 lead had captured the championship more than 60% of the time. That didn’t help the Phillies.
Nobody knows how this election will turn out, but I do know the GOP strategy: Demoralize the Democrats in order to depress the vote. Democrats, understandably, are nervous — they control the White House and both chambers of Congress, while Republicans have nothing to lose. We just have to hang on to what we’ve got.
Like many 4 Seasons songs, this one was co-written by producer Bob Crewe, but without his usual partner, band keyboardist Bob Gaudio. It reached No. 3 on the Hot 100 in 1965, the group’s highest-charting single until 1975’s “December 1963 (Oh, What a Night).”
The song reached the charts again in 1981 (No. 32) when Barry Manilow sped it up a bit and set it to a retro video.
