In the mid-term elections in 2002 the Republicans relentlessly portrayed the Democrats as weak on terrorism.
The party that wins the Presidential election loses Congressional seats in the mid-term election.
He was fairly cavalier about working hard to keep those majorities in the mid-term elections.
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That could force the central bank to raise rates in the mid-term, putting a damper on Russian equity gains so far this year.
Back when Mr Bush began his presidency, the idea that he might lose control of Congress in the mid-term elections was close to accepted wisdom.
Still, the accumulating scandals were adding an odor of corruption to all the other issues the congressional Republicans had to address in the mid-term elections.
But the prime minister dismissed this, saying the government was publishing "every single audit of every single promise - all 399 pledges set out in the Mid-Term Review".
His whipping in the mid-term elections seems to have had an effect on Mr Bush: his most senior officials are quietly exploring the possibility of deals with his opponents.
But history shows it will be an uphill battle for the Bush administration, because the party in control of the White House usually loses congressional seats in the mid-term elections.
She was elected as Alaska's youngest ever governor in 2006, a bright spot in a dreadful year for the Republican Party, which lost control of Congress in the mid-term elections.
So in the mid-term elections, voters decided to make another change, this time creating potential government gridlock, putting one party in control of the House, and leaving the other in control of the Senate.
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Mr Lieberman, Al Gore's running-mate in 2000 and a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, said he would stand as an independent candidate in the mid-term elections, potentially splintering the state's Democratic vote.
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.
The gap between Labour's opinion-poll ratings and its performance in the mid-term ballot box may be embarrassing for Tony Blair, but it is not necessarily evidence that the polls are wrong about voting intention in a general election.
The Obama administration needs eight Republican votes to reach the 67 needed to ratify the treaty - but that number will increase to 14 when the new Congress convenes in January, as the Republicans won more Senate seats in the mid-term elections.
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Hopefully, voters got it right in the mid-term elections, that we are now in one of those long benign periods of financial stability when gridlock is preferable, when government will not need the ability to make quick and decisive responses to unexpected developments.
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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.
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.
In the 1998 mid-term elections, the Democrats also picked up two governorships in the deep south, Alabama and South Carolina.
It is likely the reaction this time will be the same -- compensation will rise, but banks in the mid-to-long term won't need to have to pay big basic salaries and slowly businesses that don't need to be in the EU will cease to be.
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.
In the 2002 mid-term elections, Republicans won 51% of the vote for the House of Representatives.
Gates began his tenure at the Pentagon under Obama's predecessor George W. Bush immediately after the Republican defeat in the 2006 mid-term Congressional elections.
Russian lawmakers formally pulled the treaty from consideration in the Duma after the mid-term elections, citing political doubts, although they can resubmit it at any time.
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To its credit, Japan has committed to the purchase of two more Aegis destroyers in the current Mid-Term Defense Plan with one each to be procured in 2002 and 2003.
PAN's presence in Congress in the 2003 mid-term elections.
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Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term.
Many oil analysts expect that oil and commodity prices will remain at elevated levels at least in the short-mid term given political unrest in some oil producing countries and continued economic growth in emerging economies.
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