The party that wins the Presidential election loses Congressional seats in the mid-term election.
Unfortunately, in this particularly acrimonious mid-term election year, that is not going to happen.
President George Bush, fresh from the Republicans' mid-term election triumphs, will welcome the Fed's rate move.
He promises to distribute 45m voter guides this year, a record for a mid-term election.
Unfortunately, too many of us waited until after the 2006 mid-term election to make our views known.
The legislation was promised by the Democrats in last year's mid-term election campaign.
"This is more than just an ordinary mid-term election, " Reuters news agency quoted Graciela Romer, a Buenos Aires pollster, as saying.
But taking such a strong stance on the Lewinsky affair in the throes of a partisan mid-term election campaign, has left the town divided.
In that vote, a sitting president managed to increase his party's share of congressional seats in a mid-term election for the first time since 1934.
Anger was strong against Mr Bush at the 2002 mid-term election, yet the Democratic leadership at that election was a disaster, and the party was slaughtered.
But he has shoved off onto a bipartisan deficit commission the grisly question of how, and this commission is not due to report until after November's mid-term election.
With only a little over two years left on Mr Bush's term, his poll ratings are at record lows, and his allies in Congress are facing a tough mid-term election.
The call places pressure on congressional Democrats, particularly in the House who may find that support of tougher gun laws could make it hard for them in the 2014 mid-term election.
Joe Lieberman , the incumbent, has said he will run as an independent in November's mid-term election, potentially fracturing the Democratic vote, if he loses the primary to an anti-war candidate, Ned Lamont.
The last time unemployment was anything like its current level of 9.6% at a mid-term election, in 1982, the president's party lost 26 seats in the House, even though it was already in the minority.
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The Republicans' crushing loss of both houses of Congress in the mid-term election of 2006, thanks in large part to war-weariness, crops up only in passing, as a possible impediment to the planned surge in Iraq.
In the campaign for a mid-term election on July 5th involving all 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, PRI candidates across the country have solemnly trooped into public notaries' offices to turn their campaign promises into formal pledges.
Asked to respond to Livingston's announcement that he would run against Gingrich, Kamins said that "without criticizing Mr. Livingston, Mr. Gingrich's character is such that he would have been supportive" of Livingston if the situations had been reversed and Livingston had been under fire following Republican losses in the mid-term election.
Ideally he wants to be selected for a mid-term by-election, or failing that a rather safer Tory seat than Enfield, though he is keeping in reserve the option of fighting again there if all else fails.
And memories of the triumphant, tea party-driven 2010 election ignore the most important point looking forward: Mid-term elections have much smaller turnouts than those in presidential years.
These elections could, instead, mark a return to the politics of the 1970s when a government's mid-term blues were followed not by recovery but defeat in a general election.
Among the ranks of the Senate Republican dissenters are moderates like Olympia Snowe of Maine, or members up for re-election in 2008 who live in parts of the country where Democrats made gains in the mid-term elections, like Gordon Smith of Oregon or John Sununu of New Hampshire.
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