Sentences with phrase «difficult midterm election»
The event demonstrated the Tea Party movement's growing clout and is not good news for Democrats headed into an already difficult midterm election season.
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Congressional incumbents running for re-election this year are doing so in a difficult environment, with several key indicators among the worst they have been in midterm election years.
Midterm elections are traditionally difficult for a party with full control of the government, even more so when it is bearing the burden of an unpopular or polarizing president.
Rep. Steve Israel (D - N.Y.), who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, acknowledged that in this midterm election, Democrats face an «indisputably difficult» environment.
In most midterm election years, with a difficult...