On Sunday, Meet the Press reviewed the staggering contraction of power for the Democratic Party since President Obama took office in 2009.

The statistics fly in the face of James Carville’s prediction of 40 years of Democratic rule when “hope and change” was swept into office.

According to Chuck Todd, since 2009, Democrats have scored a net loss of:

• 13 U.S. Senate seats and
• 69 U.S. House seats

Todd reports no president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has lost as many Senate seats (also 13) and only Woodrow Wilson has lost more House seats (99).

On the state level, the contraction has been equally bad. According to Todd, Democrats have lost:

• 12 governorships,
• Control of 30 legislative chambers and
• Over 900 legislative seats

Not since the Watergate era has a party lost so much state-level ground. Todd reports Nixon/Ford lost 19 governorships and 31 legislative chambers while Eisenhower saw 1,035 Republican legislative seats disappear.

Todd’s conclusion was that Democrats “don’t turn out when Barack Obama’s not on the ballot.” He added, “something is wrong here and you can’t just blame it on Democrats don’t show up.”

Rachel Maddow said Democrats are getting “smoked” strategically. Republicans were focusing on legislative races and state chambers — which decide redistricting — and power in Congress followed.

“The Barack Obama political machine and Big Data — it’s a lie,” Marc Caputo, a reporter for Politico, said. “The Obama political machine without Obama is no machine. They don’t win. That was largely a personality-based campaign in two different cycles.”