10 Jul 2022 12:40 pm
Not counting the seven times it's already occurred.Cannonpointer » 05 Jul 2022, 2:23 pm » wrote: ↑ I predict a first-in-our-history seat-gaining midterm federal election - and not just in solid blue Georgia.
Moreover, since direct public midterm elections were introduced, in only seven of those (under presidents Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Donald Trump) has the President's party gained seats in the House or the Senate, and of those only two (1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and 2002, George W. Bush) have seen the President's party gain seats in both houses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St ... m_election
Of course, you were typing "eighth-in-our-history". Your posting of "first-in-our-history" was an obvious typo.
I find it interesting that 5 of those 7 have occurred in the 15 midterm elections starting with JFK.
Even so, the midterms are obviously the GOP's elections to lose. Just ask Chuck.
Chuck Todd, that is ...
