IT IS only a mid-term election, for half of the lower house of Congress and a third of the senate.
In that vote, a sitting president managed to increase his party's share of congressional seats in a mid-term election for the first time since 1934.
HE MAY not feel it on the eve of what is likely to be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man.
The economy is stagnant, and most of the promised changes have been blocked by a hostile legislature.Much was therefore at stake in last Sunday's mid-term election, for the 500-seat lower house of Congress.
But now the political mood in Nuevo León is changing again and that could be bad news for Mr Fox.On July 6th, Mexico will hold a mid-term election, for the 500 seats in the lower house of congress, as well as for many state and local posts.
There followed a government shutdown, two flirtations with a sovereign default over the raising of the legal limit on government borrowing, and the least productive Congress since anyone began counting.The president and Mr McConnell once again made similar pronouncements about working together after another disastrous mid-term election for the Democrats on November 4th.
The plight of the detained children is putting a painfully human face on the immigration issue at a time when the politics surrounding immigration reform have become toxic on the right and a possible source of increased Hispanic turnout in the mid-term election for the left.
This is not because of a conservative backlash in the mid-term elections, for there wasn't one California bucked the national trend and elected Democrats to all eight of its statewide offices.
The ballot coincides with mid-term elections for a new California governor as well as Congress.
FOR months now the Democrats have braced for a drubbing in November's forthcoming mid-term elections for Congress.
In the US only a third of eligible voters took part in mid-term elections for the houses of Congress.
