Word: midterm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There's only one thing dumber in politics than picking a fight when you don't have to; it's picking one when you can't win. That's why pretty much everyone in Washington is mystified by Nancy Pelosi. Through a midterm-election campaign in which Republicans had tried to caricature her as a fuzzy-headed and dangerous San Francisco liberal, she succeeded in keeping the focus on them. And the first woman Speaker-to-be was pitch-perfect in the euphoric days that followed the Democrats' big win. She said the right things, and she did the right...
...scale, the show is incredibly comprehensive in its scope. Representative pieces from movements as dissimilar as AIDS awareness and backlash against Louis Philippe’s constitutional monarchy share the gallery’s walls, united in inky rebellion.Opening on the heels of this year’s midterm elections, the exhibit makes no bones about its desire to provoke discussion. It states its ambition to be a “site of public discourse” in its accompanying introductory statement. And just in case you think Susan Dackerman, Weyerhaeuser curator of prints at the Fogg, is kidding...
...numbers alone do look like a typical midterm loss for the presidential party: 28 House seats, with 10 races still undecided. Republicans have clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns...
Sporting a green tie last night, Pataki spoke about his efforts at political compromise in New York, his experience in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, and the lessons to be drawn from the recent midterm elections. A moderate Republican, Pataki attributed the G.O.P.’s loss of the House and Senate last week to his party’s failure to appeal to the center...
Since last week’s midterm elections, it’s been pretty easy to tell who’s who in America, as far as political leanings go. That guy walking around with a smug look on his face, nose in the air, talking about how voters told the Bush administration exactly what it could do with its policies? That’s a Democrat. Then there’s the woman sitting with her head in her hands, bemoaning the now imminent triumph of the terrorists over the land of the free. She’s obviously...