Was there a Democrat left who had not lamented the results of the mid-term elections?
Unemployment was at 9.6 percent at the time of the mid-term elections in November 2010.
A new American president will dole out any unpleasant economic medicine immediately, ahead of the mid-term elections, says Sir Martin.
After the blistering rebuke of the mid-term elections in 1994, he rallied against the Republicans and, within a year, had them on the defensive.
IN A gift shop in Pueblo, a scruffy steel town 100 years past its prime, two assistants are talking politics ahead of the mid-term elections next month.
Starting on the night of the mid-term elections in 2010, they go on to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11, election day in 2012 and the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination.
Addressing inequality is widely expected to be the centerpiece of Obama's state of the union address later this month, although critics question whether the president's ambitious declarations constitute much more than political jockeying ahead of the mid-term elections.
"WE WON just about everything," said Beatriz Paredes, the president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in an accurate summing-up of the mid-term election on July 5th.
Combine the Fed's action with the results of the mid-term elections and it is clear that the US will make no progress on reducing its budget deficit next year.
The victory of Mark Kirk, a mostly moderate Republican congressman, who easily outran his more conservative rivals in the primary race, means that Illinois will become one of the hot-points of the mid-term elections in November.
(In one of the sub-plots of the mid-term elections, pensions privatisation has been universally deemed a bad thing. The "third rail" of American politics has been electrified again something that is particularly evident in South Dakota).
