Word: midterms
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...MIDTERM ELECTIONS during President Carter's term saw the Republicans make gains in Congress even in the historically Democratic South. For solace, the Democrats looked to the governorships and found a rising star in Arkansas...
...gloating," read the e-mail that greeted euphoric Republican leaders as they sleeplessly stumbled into work last Wednesday. The command came directly from the White House, which hours earlier had pulled off the biggest presidential triumph in a midterm election in nearly a century. George W. Bush and his strategists were worried that excessive celebration by congressional Republicans could infuriate Democrats, polarize the electorate and poison the slim, precious mandate the President had at last won. And so on Wednesday, White House aides fanned out across Washington holding strategy sessions and conference calls with congressional leaders and top G.O.P. operatives...
...their races. The results were momentous. Only three other times in the past century has a President's party gained seats in the House in an off-year election, and not since the Civil War has the President's party won back a Senate majority in a midterm contest. Bush will be the first Republican President since Dwight Eisenhower to enjoy outright majorities in the House and Senate...
...answer may lie not in a Democratic message so much as a Democratic messenger. The race for the 2004 presidential nomination starts now, and after the ideological debacle of the midterm election, Al Gore is suddenly looking stronger. "He was uniquely forceful in his criticism of the President on the economy and foreign policy," says a major Democratic fund raiser, "and he is the only one among the potential candidates who has run a full campaign and knows what you have to go through to do it." Gore, who spent the weekend before the election campaigning for unsuccessful Florida gubernatorial...
Punch-drunk. Terry McAuliffe must have been punch-drunk. After seeing a Republican President gain congressional seats in a midterm election for the first time since 1902, the Democratic National Committee chairman offered a woozy bit of spin: "I could make the argument that George Bush should have done a lot better last night." McAuliffe was not the only one finessing the results. "This country is still in the upheaval of 9/11," said dethroned Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. "The war in Iraq, the North Korean situation--all of that probably precluded us from having the opportunity to break through...