Republicans won a stunning victory in the 2002 midterm election by exploiting terrorism to the hilt.
Slothower cites as bullish omens the onset of positive seasonality and the midterm election cycle.
Soon after the midterm election, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform aka Simpson-Bowles issued its report.
Seniors are turning this year's midterm election into a bidding war for their votes.
Coming off a heated midterm election, that may be news to some employees who enjoy political debate.
And the nation's rising contempt for Bush and his administration helped Democrats achieve a stunning victory in the 2006 midterm election.
This odious bill was passed in June, 2009, almost a year and a half before the midterm election.
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By the hundreds and thousands, voters helped the midterm election shed its forgotten, stepchild image and produced pivotal results.
Then, after Republicans captured the House in the 2010 midterm election, his efforts to reach agreements with them proved futile.
"In the last 14 midterm election years, only six full years followed the direction of the first five days, " says Hirsch.
Republicans have held the chamber for the past 12 years, taking power in the midterm election of President Clinton's first term.
The administration, meanwhile, is focused on trying to turn the death of the McCain bill into a midterm election rallying cry.
Going into this midterm election, the House was made up of 223 Republicans, 208 Democrats and one independent, with three vacancies.
We'll have a midterm election in November, where a change of power in one or both houses of Congress is a possibility.
In a midterm election, the party of the president typically loses power.
This seems to be enough for the Rupert Murdoch-owned daily banking pamphlet to announce that the estate tax is a midterm election issue.
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It came to an end in September 2002, when the Iraq rollout and the midterm election campaign began, and the country's bitter divisions re-emerged.
And, Jack Pitney, as you look at the - as we're coming up to another midterm election, this is an opportunity, a lower turnout, non-presidential year.
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Congress returns tomorrow for a short, pre-midterm election session, and with the political season starting in earnest, the mood on Capital Hill is becoming more partisan.
Another factoid from the Hirsch crew: The average gain for the Dow from a midterm election year low to the high the following year is 50%.
During Reagan's first two years, the economy got a lot worse -- double-digit unemployment by the end of 1982, at the time of the midterm election.
With the nation in a recession, the issue could be key in November's midterm election in which control of both houses of Congress is at stake.
But after the GOP lost five seats in the 1998 midterm election, Gingrich was ousted as leader, and Boehner was challenged for the conference chairmanship by Oklahoma's J.
In the closing weeks of the campaign, Democrats framed the midterm election as a referendum on President Bush, the war in Iraq and Republican control of Capitol Hill.
"Most presidential administrations prefer to take a hit early on, " says Sy Harding, editor of Street Smart Report and a big believer in the midterm election cycle.
This midterm election was a victory for the Democratic Party.
That very shift also helped Bush turn voters' attention away from economic and other domestic issues, handing the Republicans a big win in this year's midterm election, Gore says.
An announcement is planned for Thursday morning -- a dramatic development that reinforces the turmoil within the Democratic Party in the wake of the historic Republican midterm election gains.
This is the second midterm election for Bush, and the party of the occupant of the White House historically loses congressional seats in the middle of that president's second term.
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