High hopes

I wish the media would stop teasing us with statements like this:

"In the past six decades, only one president had a lower job approval rating six months before a midterm election —Richard Nixon in May 1974, the year in which Watergate- scarred Republicans lost 48 seats in the House and four in the Senate.

By November, Nixon was out of a job too, having resigned the presidency in August."

They're just gonna get our hopes up.