Obama to Discuss Midterm Election Results

President Obama will hold a news conference this afternoon, “facing the White House press corps one day after Democrats were blown out in the midterm elections,” The Hill reports.

“The president, aides say, is anxious to get to work, telling staff he wants them to make the most out of every day of his remaining time in office. And the administration is hoping to telegraph a willingness to work with new Republican leadership in light of Tuesday’s stinging rebuke.”

In 2006, President George W. Bush called the wave sweeping Republicans out of office a “thumping.” In 2010, President Obama called a similar landslide election a “shellacking.”

What will he call this year’s election?