Word: midterm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expected departures are among a host of new signs suggesting that Bush's sixth year in office--the last one before midterm elections and a turn in attention toward the 2008 race to succeed him--will be very different from his first five. The sunny optimist who loved to think big is now facing polls in which for the first time a majority of Americans say they do not trust him. "It's like it's twilight in America," says one frustrated conservative...
...remembered for swinging for the fences is being forced to take base hits," says a former White House official. Since 1999 Bush and Rove have imagined engineering a decades-long G.O.P. majority in America. But Republicans fret these days about losing the House or Senate in next year's midterm elections. So if Rove does head out, he may leave behind a wounded President who faces the prospect of having to abandon some of the pair's Texas-size dreams...
...class is different from that of the seminar, Kerry spoke about foreign policy in the context of modern politics, according to Isaacs. A student who attended the event said that Kerry also spoke a bit about the Democratic Party and its framing of a platform and message for the midterm elections in 2006. Isaacs, who served as press secretary for former Vice President Walter F. Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign, organized the event by personally inviting Kerry to speak to her classes. She said that she wears two hats—one as a former political professional...
...Bush's allies and heirs, and the 2006 campaign promises to be an epic battle. G.O.P. pollster Bill McInturff says the percentage of people who define themselves as "very interested" in the 2006 elections is already at 57%, compared with 39% in October 2002, a month before those midterm elections. History is certainly not on Bush's side. Since 1966, if a President's approval rating dipped below 50% at a midterm election, his party lost an average of 42 seats in the House--which next year would be enough to put the Democrats back in power. Still, optimists...
Most Harvard students are probably still having nightmares about their chemistry midterm or dreaming about the cute girl in section at 7:30 a.m. on a typical Thursday, but not Chelsey S. Simmons ’06. Instead, Simmons goes to the Hemenway Gym at Harvard Law School to instruct her cardio-kickboxing class. “We’re going to walk up three steps, then left kick, back three steps, and then right kick,” she said last Thursday as she instructed the class. Every Thursday morning, Simmons teaches an hour-long session for Harvard...