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WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn was the ultimate all-American hero.
He was the first American to orbit the Earth, a war hero fighter pilot, a record-setting test pilot, a longtime senator, a presidential candidate and a man who defied age and gravity to go back into space at 77.
In the aftermath of Hillary Clinton's loss and the Democrats' failure to regain control of either house of Congress, the focus has since shifted to how the Democratic Party has been decimated at the state level. Since President Obama was elected in 2008, the Democrats have lost 919 seats in state legislatures, and Republicans now control 32 of 50 state legislatures, and hold 33 governorships.
Earlier this week on CBS' "Face the Nation," USA Today's Washington Bureau chief Susan Page said, "Democrats face a world in which they've been hollowed out. They have not had people in the pipeline as Republicans have so skillfully done for the past 20 years."