The smallest initial Senate battleground ever?
Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.Â
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Five seats represents the smallest initial Senate battleground going back to 1994, when The Rothenberg Political Report (Inside Elections’ predecessor) first started rating races.Â
Since the Gingrich revolution in 1994, four of the six Republican speakers have been forced out by their own party or simply threw in the towel, tired of the dissension in their ranks.
Against everything that we were being told … this president had one of the most successful midterm elections for a Democratic president in 60 years," she said of Democrats keeping House Republicans to
Two years later, I covered my first midterm. The 1980 election was a blowout.
Second, elections are won in the middle.
And even though the 2022 midterm elections are still more than 9 months away, history tells us Biden’s job rating isn’t likely to improve and more likely will deteriorate before Election Day.
Once again, there was more than an inkling about what would happen nearly three years out from the next midterm elections.
ANALYSIS — Political observers all know the party holding the White House tends to fare poorly during the midterm elections.
Democrats lost 63 seats in 2010 and 54 seats in 1994 during Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s first midterms as president.