WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—To hear the White House tell it, the November elections never happened and 2014 was a super-duper year for President Obama.

In a “Year in Review” slideshow, the White House suggests 2014 represented a “breakthrough” for America. The Obama administration takes credit for:

• An economy growing at a record pace;

• The longest streak of private-sector job growth on record;

• The number of Americans without health insurance falling to a near record low;

• Concerted action to prevent sexual assaults on college campuses;

• The highest high school graduation rate in the nation’s history;

• Historic steps to reduce carbon pollution in the U.S. and around the world;

• Checking the Ebola outbreak, Russian aggression in Ukraine and the ISIL terrorist group in the Mideast.

Oh, but that is not all. Obama became the first president to write a line of computer code, get 3-D printed, give a video interview to cult comedian Zach Galifianakis and answer questions on Tumblr.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, the public wasn't quite as enthusiastic about all the progress in 2014. They handed control of the Senate to Republicans in November for the first time since 2006 and gave conservatives their biggest House majority since 1928.

Our bad, the president and his staff have said. They suggest their biggest failure wasn't adequately explaining to the public all the good things that have been happening under their watch.

“I’m obviously frustrated with the results of the midterm election,” Obama told NPR in a radio interview released Monday. “I think we had a great record for members of Congress to run on. And I don’t think we — myself, and the Democratic Party — made as good of a case as we should have.”