Midterm Elections: Barack Obama in Political Quarantine as Campaign Draws to a Close

Barack Obama has not visited any of the ten swing states
that will decide control of the Senate

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The President is having a fittingly subdued end to a subdued campaign season, cloistered in the White House with his advisors

As the rest of America's political class spends the last full day of the midterm elections frantically campaigning, President Barack Obama is cloistered in the White House discussing economic figures with his advisors.

It is a fittingly subdued end to a subdued campaign season for the President.

Two years after he convincingly won a second term in the White House, Mr Obama is so personally unpopular that Democrats have relegated him to the sidelines in this election in the hope his toxic poll numbers will not infect their candidates.

Once considered his party's most gifted campaigner, Mr Obama has made few appearances on the campaign trail this year and stayed in Washington through much of the election.

He has steered well clear of the roughly ten battleground states which will decide control of the US Senate, even those like Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire, which he won in 2012. » | Raf Sanchez, Washington | Monday, November 03, 2014