claim: democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since barack obama has been president.
author: cokie roberts
evidence_1: jan 14, 2015 ... now, there are more 7,000 state legislative seats in the country, ... as ncsl  notes, republicans now control more than 4,100 seats -- their highest number  since 1920. ... most of the politicians -- president obama included -- who have ...  or even president is now significantly larger than that of democrats.
evidence_2: nov 7, 2018 ... the democrats won a majority in the united states house of ... under president  barack obama, the democratic party largely neglected ... “the state legislature  has been seen as a backwater that isn't worth ... (the democrats lost more than  900 seats in state legislatures during obama's eight years in office.) ...
evidence_3: nov 4, 2015 ... under president obama, democrats have lost 900+ state legislature seats, 12 ...  to measure this is to look at the number of seats that democrats held after the ...  party has lost more combined congressional seats by the end of the race to ...  losses by this metric, obama's have indeed been historically high.
evidence_4: sep 23, 2018 ... democrats controlled 60 of 99 state legislative chambers. ... democrats have lost  more than 900 legislative seats since obama took office. ... president-elect  donald trump finished off the tsunami that has been building since ...
evidence_5: jan 10, 2017 ... over the past eight years, the democratic party has lost a ... their share of seats  in the united states senate has fallen from 59 to 48. ... about the state of the party , there's less than meets the eye regarding the apparent ... giving obama the  strongest down-ballot support of any president since jimmy carter.