Word: coattails
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Ronald Reagan, in an uncharacteristic display of stamina, was hard at work. In a last ditch effort to save the Republican Senate, the President visited 17 states, campaigning for his friends in the Senate class of '80, the Reagan coattail riders...
...there was any modulation of Republican joy, and any consolation for Democrats, it was that the President did not demonstrate much of a coattail pull. The G.O.P. retained control of the Senate as expected, but suffered a net loss of two seats from its pre-election 55-to-45 majority. In the House, Republicans did not come close to recapturing the 26 seats they lost to Democrats in the 1982 midterm election; Wednesday-morning projections gave them a net gain of ten to 15. That would not only keep the Democrats in control of the lower chamber; it might deny...
...limits of the President's coattail effect proved that the concept of Republican supremacy in Congress was merely an illusion. Overall, Democrats won 62 percent of the Congressional races, and they picked up two seats in the Senate. Only once before in modern politics when the Republicans lost two seats in 1972--has a party lost ground in the upper chamber while its presidential candidate won the general election...
Political observers said that Mondale might have benefited from a "reverse coattail effect," drawing strength from popular Democratic Senate candidate John F. Kerry. Kerry swept to a comfortable victory over Republican Raymond Shamie...
...Gordon J. Humphrey (R-N.H.) benefited perhaps more than any other candidate from the Reagan coattail effect, winning reelection by a 15-point margin over five-term Democratic Rep. Norman E. D'Amours...