midterm elections

The vote on China currency was one of the last items on the congressional agenda before the midterm elections.

President Barack Obama said the American people sent a loud message in this week's midterm elections - the economy is priority number one.

He said Obama would spell them out over the next several weeks and before the midterm elections.

The Obama administration's health care reforms have been a central part of the US political debate ahead of midterm elections on Tuesday.

Views about just how much trouble will harden after November's midterm elections.

Eulalia Garcia-Maturey said the first thing she wanted to do as an American was vote in the November midterm elections.

And I think Obama came back after the midterm elections, after taking a drubbing, and said, "I'm going to play centrist with you. "

The Obama administration has struck a more conciliatory tone towards business since the Democratic defeat in November's midterm elections.

AMERICAN voters, spared a serious discussion of the budget in the midterm elections, are about to get an earful on the subject.

Historically, the party in the White House -- currently the Democratic Party -- suffers losses in midterm elections.

For sure, politics is leaning hard against further action, at least this side of November's midterm elections.

Midterm elections are often just rough measurements of the public's mood and the President's popularity.

Smarting from his party's midterm elections defeat, President Barack Obama is turning his attention abroad.

The president and his Democratic party face the possibility of losing majority control of Congress in midterm elections early next month.

Pressure on U. S. politicians to take action is growing in the run-up to midterm elections in November.

Midterm elections. The last time one party lost the House but kept the Senate was during the Great Depression.

Newt sure didn't want that, so, like Bob Dole, he would try to keep as much from happening before the midterm elections as possible.

After the midterm elections, which are also likely to be painful, Barack Obama should learn to love big business.

It's the culmination of a campaign promise Republicans made ahead of the November midterm elections.

More than two months after what he described as his party's 'shellacking' in midterm elections, Mr. Obama didn't appear to be on defense.

These elections, because they occur in even-numbered years at the halfway point of a presidential term, are known as midterm elections.

To be sure, even before the midterm elections, the prospects for meaningful action on climate change in Washington were dim.

The Democrats are likely to do very badly in the midterm elections next month, and may lose control of both houses of Congress.

On the campaign trail for November's midterm elections, there have been repeated references to the impact of Chinese trade on US jobs.

"Blue Dog" faction members that the Pelosi Democrats in the midterm elections should take responsibility for the defeat.

What's more, the two parties would be neck and neck if the midterm elections were held today.

S. House of Representatives have about a month to work on legislation, because we're coming up on the midterm elections.

Conservatives are casting the November midterm elections as a vote on repealing the health-reform law.

The report provides a fresh reminder of the government's fiscal problems, a major issue in midterm elections less than a month away.

Yet the public has soured on government activism, and seems poised to deal Democrats a severe defeat in the midterm elections.

Greatly strengthened by the midterm elections, they know they have the president on the run.

We would, instead, be talking about modest Democratic losses, no more than is usual in midterm elections.

With the midterm elections only two weeks away, the administration was under political pressure that proved impossible to resist.

As the Democrats' brace themselves for big losses in Tuesday's midterm elections, Ms Palin's mockery will sting.

On the political front, the economists were divided over the effect of the midterm elections on the economy.

Over the years, Democrats and Republicans have tended to face challenges in congressional midterm elections.

Democrats in Congress are threatening to pass legislation before the midterm elections that would slap huge tariffs on Chinese goods.

A president's party usually loses seats in Congress during midterm elections, and widespread frustration over sluggish U.

After the Democratic "shellacking" in the midterm elections, everyone wondered how President Obama would respond.

It happened most recently when Boehner took his first turn on stage after Republicans seized control of the House in the midterm elections.

U. S. congressmen before midterm elections, like bees in the fall, can be quick to sting.

The 2010 midterm elections, as experienced online, aren't likely to provide the same technological turning point.

Labor's support will also be critical in next fall's midterm elections.

How will America's middle classes vote in the midterm elections in a couple of days' time?

I assume that, after the midterm elections, resurgent Republicans will offer new tax cuts and ignore the fiscal deficits.

The new tough stance on earmarks will boost GOP prospects in midterm elections, House Republican leaders say.

Mr. Bush made the announcement Wednesday, a day after Republicans lost midterm elections.

The new poverty figures come only weeks before November's Congressional midterm elections.

The war in Iraq was [a] key issure in the midterm elections.

The primary impact [of the midterm elections] will be on domestic policy, not foreign policy.

All signs point to major losses for the Democratic party in the US midterm elections this November.

Lawmakers head back to their home districts in October to campaign ahead of November's midterm elections.

There were no major surprises in Tuesday's midterm elections that should sway trading Wednesday.

Beyond that, a sense that the economy is turning upward is the essential predicate for Democrats to survive next year's midterm elections.

Mr Obama has to bridge this gulf, and may be nudged into doing so by Republican gains in the midterm elections next week.

For members of Congress facing midterm elections in November, the weak labor market may cost them their own jobs.

Mr Obama's popularity fell and the Democrats suffered a "shellacking" in the midterm elections.

One wild card is the impact of the forthcoming midterm elections.

Gingrich resigned his seat in Congress in 1998, after Republicans suffered losses in the midterm elections that year.

On that subject, there was quantitative easing as soon as the midterm elections were over.

Next November are the midterm elections.

Economists and others weigh in on what the midterm elections mean for the broader economy.

Ridiculous as this seems, they think they were pounded in last month's midterm elections because the administration has been too timid.

shellacking: President Obama's preferred way to describe what happened to Democrats in the midterm elections.

In theory, Democrats should do just this when they reconvene after the midterm elections. In practice, will they have the good sense to?

Among the other 21 senators defending their seats in the 2010 midterm elections, 19 did so successfully.

But as America prepares to vote in the midterm elections, "greed" has become newly emotive.

The politically good news for Obama is that no matter what the outcome of the midterm elections, everything changes in January.

November 2 midterm elections marked a shift of power in Washington, D.

Generally speaking, most pundits called the 2010 U. S. midterm elections pretty accurately.

In the 2006 midterm elections, turnout in this age group was 3 percent higher than in 2002, nearly double the national turnout increase.

"Despite his reverses in the midterm elections, Obama has shown he can deliver on foreign policy. "

These are called midterm elections because they come halfway through the president's term.

Candidates are gearing up for the final stretch of midterm elections,

US Midterm Elections and Its Future Policies