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.
The 1994 mid-term election was a massive vote of no confidence in President Clinton.
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.
Some doctors accuse it of deliberately downplaying the outbreak until after a mid-term election on June 28th.
Unfortunately, too many of us waited until after the 2006 mid-term election to make our views known.
The party's thumping in the 2006 mid-term election was almost entirely due to its waning fortunes among independent voters.
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.
In June the government lost its legislative majority in a mid-term election.
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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.
Party march to victory in the historic 1994 U.S. mid-term election, so what he has to say should be of interest to almost everyone.
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.
The surge, faster than expected, will bring a welcome momentum, but also the suspicion that it is intended to show results before the 2010 American mid-term election.
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.
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.
However, those are still the most dependable voters, and a main reason why Republicans are so optimistic that in this mid-term election, their voters will turn out while young and minority Democrats may not.
In one Washington Post survey the generic Republican vote is seven points ahead of the Democratic one for this year's mid-term election the largest such lead this poll has recorded since it began in 1981.
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.
This is a prospect that might yet encourage moderates to run against him, touching off an intriguing battle for the direction of the party just at the time that it will be struggling to hold on to its narrow majority in the 2002 mid-term election.
Because much of the memorabilia will be produced in Asia and turned into garbage in America, it will increase the strains caused by Ameirca's worsening trade deficit as well as add to the pollution of the environment, both of which are undesirable in a mid-term election year.
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.
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