Elections were held in November. Congressmen serve until late January. Anyone who is currently serving but lost the election, and so will be leaving in late January, is called a lame duck.
The Lame Duck Congress was created on 2000-11-08.
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A lame duck is an elected official whose tenure is about to end. The 20th Amendment shortened the lame duck period by moving the beginning of the new Congress to January 3 and the presidential inauguration to January 20.
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The Lame Duck Amendment.
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It isn't "sitting duck" but lame duck. A lame duck is a person in office whose term of office is nearly finished.
From a layman's point of view, a "lame-duck" president would be a president that everybody (including congress) simply ignored. He's there just to fill a space, until someone better comes along.
As lame as a duck
"Lame duck" is a political term to describe someone who has been voted out of office or termed out.
Means your lame or a weakling