Word: midterms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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He?and the elephant?had every reason to trumpet. With a record 56 million voters (48% of all voting-age Americans) casting midterm ballots, the G.O.P. scored solid gains at every level, from state assembly to U.S. Senate. It picked up some 700 seats in the state legislatures, more than erasing the 529-seat loss of two years ago. Having lost 38 House seats in the Goldwater debacle, the Republicans scored a net gain of 47, their best showing in two decades and a marked improvement over the average off-year pickup of 38 seats for "out" parties during...
While a President's impact on a midterm election is always hard to assess, Johnson could hardly absolve himself of blame for the Democrats' reverses. His performance the week before the elections was probably the least attractive of any during his three years in office. He trotted Defense Secretary Robert McNamara out to announce a pre-election draft cut that struck many a voter as a blatantly political move. He issued favorable economic figures to blunt the inflation issue (Pollster Lou Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage...
Experts of every description-politicians and pundits, sociologists and foreign ministers-will dissect exhaustively the results of the 1966 midterm election in the U.S. Yet as the campaign moved into its final days, few could agree on any hard estimate of the outcome...
...President was not amused. It was historically unprecedented for a junior Senator, not yet 41 years old, to outpoll a hitherto-popular President from the same party. And it could prove damaging to the party, on the eve of a midterm election that could erode the Administration's working majority in Congress. Moreover, Bobby is likely to remain in the headlines by campaigning in perhaps a score of states (Humphrey plans to stump 38, Johnson all 50) for such fellow Democrats as Michigan's G. Mennen Williams and Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas. A major target...
Gill said the midterm grades had been particularly useful in detecting sophomores headed for academic difficulty, and in making out graduate school and fellowship recommendations for seniors...