Drive for Cash Accelerates
reports Monday gave both parties’ campaign committees an opportunity to crow about the financial standing of their incumbents and challengers with just a little more than one year to go before the 2006 midterm
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reports Monday gave both parties’ campaign committees an opportunity to crow about the financial standing of their incumbents and challengers with just a little more than one year to go before the 2006 midterm
Then, as now, I was convinced that a national advertising campaign and a national message would benefit the “out” party in the next midterm election.
In a memo Reynolds distributed to his caucus last week and made available to reporters, the NRCC chairman seeks to dispel the conventional wisdom on midterm elections while offering evidence of why
traction on the ethics issue for the 2006 elections.
With the approval ratings of President Bush and Congress plummeting, both parties are treading lightly around handicapping their electoral prospects in next year’s midterm elections.
Then, his Republicans defied historical trends and gained seats in the first midterm, and two years later, his undisputed re-election victory was accompanied by real, not reverse, coattails.
That sentiment may not be popular in the Caucus, but it highlights a hurdle facing Democrats as they try to regain seats in the midterm elections: To topple Majority LeaderTom DeLay (R-Texas) and
Even though the political stakes are extremely high in the 2006 elections, House Democrats and Republicans alike expect the balloting will bring little change to their respective leadership lineups, no
[IMGCAP(1)] Historically speaking, the 2006 midterm elections should be a bonanza for Democrats.
But how does it rank with fabled special elections that were harbingers of major political change?
And we did,” Browder said, recalling the 1994 midterm elections that forced a changing of the guard on the Hill. Rep.
He never held a leadership position, having lost a bid for Majority Whip in 1994 to DeLay.
Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), DCCC chairman, touted a recently released poll from The Wall Street Journal that suggested the disapproval of Congress is at its highest level since 1994, the year Democrats lost control
But it is far too premature to start writing the GOP’s midterm obituary at this point.
[IMGCAP(1)] Retirements, of course, could change the arithmetic of next year’s Senate elections, and candidate recruitment is always an important factor in any election cycle.
Some liberals want Democrats to take a page from the Republican handbook, circa 1994, to win back control of Congress. But Republicans say the advice comes too late.
And the Democrats were going to start out united on Social Security, unlike on Medicare prescription drugs, because they saw it as a potential springboard to big gains in the midterm elections and
President Richard Nixon, who had been mired in the Watergate scandal for most of his second term, resigned Aug. 9, a mere three months before the midterm elections.