The Democrats haven't won that many, picked up that many seats since 1982 in an off-year election.
In this off-year election, we hear disproportionately from seniors, a population already covered by the universal Medicare program.
But that's an off-year election for state offices and voter turnout will be greatest in New York City for the mayoral election.
It's hard to know if similar dynamics will play out in a gubernatorial race in an off-year election, when no federal candidates are on the ballot.
Democrats had better luck in gubernatorial races capturing offices in both New Jersey and Virginia in Tuesday's off-year election, wresting control of both offices from Republican hands.
So we've seen that the president can, has the capability of pulling down your party, or certainly hurting your party in an off-year election, in a mid-term election.
The voters have rarely placed the entire government into the hands of one party or the other, and the backlash against the White House in the first off-year election is a strong pattern.
It was not until the off-year election results provided business with some confidence that the administration's ability to further implement its policies through legislative action was at an end that the recovery began to show modest improvements.
In the 1996 Senate race, fear that he would make it to the run-off in a presidential-election year prompted state Republican leaders to step in and anoint their own candidate.
There is still some optimism here that Zimbabwe can pull off a free and fair election later this year.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A year to the day after kicking off his victorious re-election campaign on this college campus, President Barack Obama returned to Ohio State University and told graduates that only through vigorous participation in their democracy can they right an ill-functioning government and break through relentless cynicism about the nation's future.
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch was considered a safe bet to win re-election to a third two-year term after facing off against Republican Joe Kenney, a state senator.
Provided the election comes off cleanly, those changes have increased the chance that this year Mexico will avoid the economic or political crises that have marked the start of the past four presidential terms despite some signs of economic overheating, and worries about the possible impact of a slowing economy north of the border.
The one thing we don't want happening is in a big election year, like '06, we do not want it to start off with massive disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
The UK Independence Party, which campaigns for Britain's exit from the EU and came second to the Conservatives at this year's European elections, is hoping to win votes off the party at the next election.
But wind energy tapered off when a federal tax credit, due to expire at year's end, became a hostage of the presidential election.
This is another example of a major regulation put off until next year, ensuring that Americans won't learn about its effect on their electricity bills until after the election.
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