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...pleasant, although the meat should have been cooked a little more for my taste. (The prospect of tapeworm can put a damper on even the most charming dinner.) The lamb is inconsistent—some slices are fine, others are just plain gristly and tougher than an Ec10 midterm...
Begala and Carville’s battle plan, to “call a radical a radical,” has not worked. Republicans swept midterm elections nationwide in Nov. 2002, prompting Washington Monthly editor-in-chief Paul Glastris to offer this clear explanation for why the Democrats got spanked: “They had no message.” Specifically, the Democrats’ mantra that “Bush is a radical,” supported with tired and trite examples, did not resonate with centrist voters. Glastris suggests that Democrats should have instead focused their campaigns...
...G.O.P. lobbyist, who noted that Oliver "made people feel they were part of a network that never ended." If your kid needed a photo with the President, Oliver made it happen. He kept in touch with fund raisers by conference call and e-mail and rallied them for the midterm election, writing gracious thank-you notes in his trademark blue felt-tip pen. After Congress doubled the gift limit to $2,000 a pop, Oliver helped institute a higher tier of fund raiser: the Rangers, who each raise $200,000 or more...
...biggest culprit is the hour-long midterm, or “hourly.” Usually consisting of several phrases to be identified (IDs) and a short essay, a midterm attempts to measure the knowledge gained over two months in about 53 minutes. A typical ID asks for the significance of the battle of Gettysburg to a course on war and politics. If you think that’s difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis?...
...when Richard Nixon waved goodbye, boarded a helicopter and flew off into exile. The scandal that engulfed Nixon, his first Vice President, Attorney General and top White House aides was, nearly everyone agreed, clearly a windfall of immense proportions for the Democratic Party. And it was: in the 1974 midterm elections that gave the Democrats huge Congressional gains--43 House seats and three Senate seats--and in the unlikely elevation of a peanut farmer and Washington outsider named Jimmy Carter to the Presidency two years later. In the long term, however, Watergate proved to be more of a boon...