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.
At the mid-term of the Global Immunization Vision and Strategy, we observed more than three-quarters of countries either achieved ≥ 90% coverage by 2010 or were on track to achieve ≥ 90% coverage by 2015 for both DTP3 and MCV.
It makes recommendations to integrate future assistance into UNICEF's overall Programme of Cooperation for 2006-10 withethe Government of Indonesia at the mid-term of the programme cycle.
