The Myth Of The Mid-Term Turnover
Monday November 13, 2006
Updated 10.09 Pacific
It's time to put to bed the idea that mid-term elections where voters toss out the party in power is a common and expected event. It's not. All you have to do is check out this chart that shows the party in power since1950 1945. (Yes, I need to go further back in time ... but I've chosen this period because it's post WWII and the era of modern political campaigns.)
It's time to put to bed the idea that mid-term elections where voters toss out the party in power is a common and expected event. It's not. All you have to do is check out this chart that shows the party in power since
Having the Congress and Presidency in the hands of the same party is not the norm. Only 12 times (24 years) in the past 60 years have Congress and the Presidency been controlled by the same party.