Barack Obama faces the prospect of spending his final two years in office as a 'lame duck' president, with polls showing the Republicans poised to recapture control of the US Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections.
Although Mr Obama's name is nowhere on the ballot, Republicans placed the increasingly embattled US leader at the centre of a national campaign to retake the US Senate and fire Republican dreams of recapturing the White House in 2016.
"We're going to send a message – a message to President Obama," said Rand Paul, the conservative US senator, at a last-minute campaign event in his native Kentucky on Monday.
"This will be a repudiation of President Obama's policies." » | Peter Foster, Louisville, Kentucky | Monday, November 03, 2014
