But it isn't difficult to imagine her saying, as our Prime Minister said on Monday, at a press conference meant to mark the "mid-term" of the Coalition, that "we can have arguments and still get the job done".
Approximately 2.5m Georgians voted, a figure similar to the mid-terms of 2010.
Like the Democrats last November, the president's party was thumped in the mid-terms of 1982.
Not even the sunny disposition of Ronald Reagan could stop his approval ratings plunging as he faced the mid-terms of 1982.
More are fixated on their own party's fate in the mid-terms of 1994, when the Republicans stormed back and recaptured the House.
Well before November's mid-term shellacking turfed the Democratic majority out of the House, Obama-watchers wondered whether this president had the ideological flexibility to do what Bill Clinton did in the same predicament after the mid-terms of 1994.
Newt Gingrich, who led the Republican comeback in the mid-terms of 1994, told CPAC that he expected the Democrats to lose both the Senate and the House in the mid-terms.
For reasons I've never completely understood, the Democrats made little effort before the mid-terms of November 2010 to explain or to defend the law on which they had expended so much time, energy and political capital.
"It's inevitable in the mid-term of Parliament when parties' popularities wane, when difficult decisions are being made, that some of the activist base will attack the leadership.
Short train stimulation (75 100 μA, 0.2 ms, 100 Hz, 3 5 pulses) delivered during the early- or mid-term of inspiration augmented the inspiratory duration, but switched the inspiration off when delivered during the later stage of inspiration.
