Word: midterm
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...that a student can research through a medium other than shopping. The reading list? That’s online. Course goals? Also online, often in the same detail that the professor spends on it for an hour on the first day. “Does this class have a midterm?” Why, yes, if you had looked online, you’d know that, now, wouldn?...
...While midterm elections are still a ways away, Democrats and Republicans on campus will have a chance to fight it out much sooner...
...Brown’s election didn’t jettison the notion that the Republican electoral ship had sunk after the 2008 election, the current political climate certainly has. Despite their recent legislative victory in the health-care battle, the Democrats still stand to lose significant ground in the midterm elections. Although punishing sitting presidents with Congressional losses is ingrained in the American political tradition, recent polls suggest that voters may put an unusually severe dent in the Democrats’ current congressional majority. As the leader of his party, President Obama must take it upon himself to stop...
...Obama’s approval ratings have fallen by 24 percent in less than a year, in spite of having achieved his top legislative priority and overseeing a successful stabilization of the banking industry. Yes, the American people do tend to check their leaders by issuing them losses in midterm elections, but Obama’s performance doesn’t merit the dramatic backlash 2010 is shaping...
...What's less clear than the group's makeup is the role it will play in November's midterm elections and beyond. "The real test is whether it's an electoral phenomenon or a social-protest phenomenon," says Isaac Wood, an analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "They've been very successful at garnering headlines. What they need to do is prove they can garner votes." Yet to do so entails diving into a political process whose perversion has been an organizing principle for the Tea Party. "They are kind of anti-politics, not just anti...