We'll have a midterm election in November, where a change of power in one or both houses of Congress is a possibility.
The elections marked only the second time since 1934 that a president's party did not lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
The Republican Party built on its majority in the House of Representatives, marking only the second time since 1934 that a sitting president's party didn't lose House seats in a midterm ballot -- the first time for a Republican president since 1902.
He got people excited about voting - very hard to do in a midterm race.
Seniors are turning this year's midterm election into a bidding war for their votes.
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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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%.
Last year's midterm elections produced a Republican wave that enabled the party to take back the House of Representatives and to eliminate the Democrats' filibuster-proof Senate majority.
This midterm election was a victory for the Democratic Party.
The other reason, possibly linked to the first, is that a series of unpredictable results has produced a midterm points table that bears little resemblance to anything anyone expected.
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.
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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So the idea of monitoring the specifics of everything around our globe, which seems to be defying physics by expanding even as it gets smaller, is accepted with about as much alacrity as a midterm.
After all, Clinton also suffered a major setback in his first midterm, Clinton also faced down a hardline Republican Congress, Clinton also suffered major policy defeats, and yet Clinton, as the story goes, managed to co-opt the conservative agenda and remake himself into a successful centrist.
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"It is a traditional midterm protest vote and it's found its lightning conductor through UKIP, " Travers said.
Coming off a heated midterm election, that may be news to some employees who enjoy political debate.
Believers also add that midterm elections are usually a referendum on the president.
Obama and Democratic leaders, aware of a rockier political climate because of midterm congressional elections in 2010, insist that a bill must pass this year to address spiraling health care costs that are threatening economic stability.
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Last month the Democratic Party set a record for midterm-election unpopularity by losing control of six Senate seats and 63 House seats.
President Bill Clinton used such a strategy after Democratic losses in the 1994 midterm election, accepting politically smart compromises such as signing a welfare overhaul, while allowing the federal government to be shut down in a budget fight that he successfully blamed on Republicans.
He's also a Democrat, and he's struck by how much the midterm elections changed the role of Iraq from a political weapon the Democrats could use in the campaign to a burden they now share with the president.
The results are a mixture of typical midterm protest and "rage against the machine, " said Tony Travers, director of the government department at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Can Republicans match the modern average gain for the opposition party in the Senate in a president's second midterm?
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They're trying to figure out why thousands of ballots showed no votes for a congressional race in the midterm elections.
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.
"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.
When it runs its course is a moot point for with Midterm elections approaching and the political temperature in all 50 states rising, delays appear to be all but inevitable.
After the 2010 midterm elections, this was identified as a crucial vote because of the leverage that Congress has and the likelihood that some of the tea party conservatives would not vote to raise it.
And I think with the upcoming midterm elections, you can certainly expect a lot of new faces in Congress, and certainly a lot of new representatives and senators are going to have been elected on platforms that are really opposed to government intervention in the economy.
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