Word: mid-term
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...looking high and low for the winning issues in the mid-term haystack...
...candidates, of course, always try to find and define what matters, but the voters do not always pay heed: on the morning after, national trends are often difficult to discern in mid-term elections. There is a certain wisdom in House Speaker Tip O'Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan...
...contains, the Nov. 2 voting will determine how much congressional support Reagan will continue to have for his revolutionary program of scaling back the domestic role of the Federal Government. On the average, since World War II, the party out of power has gained twelve House seats in mid-term elections. Barring some unexpectedly disastrous news about the economy, the Democrats can reasonably hope to add about this number to their 51-seat majority in the 435-member body. Such a gain might be enough to deprive Reagan of the fragile working coalition that allowed him to pass his major...
...fear is reversed, then people will listen to the Republican message. We will still pick up seats, but not as many." Most estimates, including Coelho's, cluster around a Democratic gain often to 15 seats in the House, not particularly impressive for the opposition party in a mid-term election...
...Democratic officials, willing to preside over the disintegration of his party's grand coalition and too proud to ask lesser-ranking Democrats for advice. On major issues, he was similarly misguided. White describes Carter's practice of poring over 1000-plus page military budget documents. He concludes that by mid-term, Carter, amazingly, had become the White House's chief researcher and goofball aide Hamilton Jordon its chief policymaker...