In the mid-term elections in 2002 the Republicans relentlessly portrayed the Democrats as weak on terrorism.
Republicans campaigned for the mid-term elections on a pledge to put a halt to the reforms.
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Mid-term elections have historically not been kind to the party of the sitting president.
But even without the apparent dawn of four party politics, mid-term elections can give strange readings.
After the 2006 mid-term elections, MoveOn had an even stronger claim on the party.
The first is mid-term elections, which are starting to be factored into the markets.
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Probably just a calendaring coincidence that the report was due AFTER the mid-term elections.
Mid-term elections in November will decide which party controls the two houses of Congress.
He was fairly cavalier about working hard to keep those majorities in the mid-term elections.
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He had been blamed for misreading the popular mood before last week's mid-term elections.
Ms Fernandez may also regain control of Congress, which she lost in mid-term elections in 2009.
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In the 2002 mid-term elections, Republicans won 51% of the vote for the House of Representatives.
Co-operation has been especially rocky since 2009, when the PAN attacked the PRI in mid-term elections.
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All that said, the wavering of independents is bound to worry Democrats facing mid-term elections next year.
The Republican Party's sudden concern for the welfare of vulnerable gamblers comes just before the mid-term elections.
Mr Bush will also need to bear in mind one other striking feature of these mid-term elections.
Older voters tend to vote more in mid-term elections and this year appear to be voting more Republican.
The committee isn't likely to say anything about the investigation before the mid-term elections two weeks from today.
Without the Tea Party, the Republicans would never have made such big gains in last autumn's mid-term elections.
But most Republicans have argued that pulling Mr Hastert down before the mid-term elections would be a disaster.
Why force a divide among Republicans on this issue right at this point in time during mid-term elections?
The crescendo was reached in November of 2010 when the Tea Party exercised extraordinary influence over the mid-term elections.
Still, by then the mid-term elections will be safely out of the way.
Mid-term elections are near, and there is little political appetite for a bill that could affect jobs and energy prices.
In the 1998 mid-term elections, the Democrats also picked up two governorships in the deep south, Alabama and South Carolina.
What if we tried a sailboat race to see which candidate, come mid-term elections, tacks hardest to the idealogical center?
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These voters do not understand the importance of mid-term elections and the direct impact their vote can have on our state.
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And after the mid-term elections, it was clear that Republicans would have considerable influence over the agency in the new Congress.
However, it is unlikely that the Democrats will be able to pull off the same thing in next year's mid-term elections.
In Texas, Tom DeLay won the Republican primary in his congressional district (he faces a tougher challenge in November's mid-term elections).
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