November's midterm elections are just around the corner and President Barack Obama confidently said Democrats would control the U.S. Senate during CBS' 60 Minutes interview on Sunday.

Obama said Republicans need to have at least six seats in order to gain control and dominate the U.S. Senate.

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However, the polls for the upcoming midterm elections show the president is struggling while facing international crises. Also, surveys show Republicans are having great turnouts in most states across the country.

According to a CNN poll, Obama's approval rating among white voters was only 26 percent. However, he remains popular among non-white voters who registered 75 percent in the survey.

Besides talking about Senate control, the president also talked about the U.S. economy. He said Americans have yet to feel their recovery from the previous recession that has enveloped the country years back.

He said that the economic crisis began in January 2009 with unemployment skyrocketing. Obama said that financial crisis affected not only Americans, but also those who chose to work abroad.

But on a positive note, Obama said that he has witnessed the longest run of uninterrupted private-sector job growth in America's history, but confidently added that he can compare his record against most leaders all over the world in trying to lift the people and the country he is governing from the extraordinary financial debts his administration has faced.

The country is absolutely better off six years after he took office adding that the people might not feel the changes due to the reason that incomes and wages are not yet increasing, Obama added. He then repeated his platform regarding the raise of workers' minimum wage as well as equal payment for women, which has been earlier discussed on Labor Day this year.

Obama said that he hopes the people would listen to his proposals because all he is doing is presenting the figures and the facts.

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