Slothower cites as bullish omens the onset of positive seasonality and the midterm election cycle.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
It would be foolish for the self-defined liberal elite and Democrats hoping to get elected this midterm election to underestimate Beck and forces like the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
Escalating violence in Iraq and the midterm election results have helped to focus more attention on the group of five Democrats and five Republicans, charged with reviewing U.S. policy in Iraq.
According to a market phenomenon that dates back to the administration of Woodrow Wilson in 1914, the time to invest is now in order to take advantage of the midterm election-cycle effect.
Like Lutts, Murphy is also aware of the strong historical precedent for a market bottom after a substantial decline during midterm election years, followed by a strong gain to the next year's highs.
The midterm election year of 1994, in which Republicans took control of Congress, is widely seen as a reaction to the presidential election year of 1992, when Bill Clinton won his first term.
Since the start of the modern two-party system in the mid-19th century, the party of an incumbent president has never captured control of the House from the other party in a midterm election.
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