Word: midterm
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...only film that could be considered to have swayed a vote, McElwee notes, was Peter Davis’ 1974 anti-Vietnam polemic Hearts and Minds, which fueled the anti-war movement before that year’s Congressional midterm elections...
...Republicans found themselves in worse straits after the Watergate disaster. Midterm elections in 1974 left the party with 43 fewer House seats (down to a third of the chamber), 6 fewer governorships (down to only 12), and 21 percent fewer state legislators. Robert Teeter, a Detroit pollster hired then by the Republican National Committee to survey the wreckage, was candid in his report: “We are no longer a minority party. We have achieved the status of a minor party...
Daschle concluded that the White House, even after 9/11, had never stopped running every decision through a political filter. Bush's team was able to take the issue of creating the Department of Homeland Security, which the President initially opposed, and ultimately use it against Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections by suggesting the party cared more about protecting its labor supporters than protecting the country. "This is an ideological Administration that's different from Reagan and Bush One, which were very conservative but principled," Kennedy argues. "They wanted to win, but this Administration wants to destroy the opposition...
...Starr thing. Then I lost the Congress in '94 because I tried to jam too much change down the system at one time, and Gingrich was a better politician than I was in '94. His major contribution to American political history was the proof that you could consistently nationalize midterm elections. And it's a lesson that any Democrat or Republican now ignores at their peril...
Students did complain about the course’s heavy workload—its four one-page papers, two 10-page papers, midterm and final made it one of the most work-intensive Core courses—but they said it was not enough to dissuade them from taking the course...