1986
Posted at 1:30pm on Jun. 3, 2008 Questioning the map-changing Democratic wave
Everything is brand new, just like last time
By Neil Stevens
Were the 2006 Congressional defeats the foreshocks of a map-shifting earthquake in the 2008 election, or were they just the same thing that normally happens in the sixth year of a Presidency?
I have examined the last seven sixth year midterm elections (Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy/Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush) and the losses the President's party lost in both houses of the Congress, and I'm unconvinced that there was anything to learn long-term from the last election.
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Posted at 12:00pm on Oct. 23, 2007 Cautions for Conservatives
Elections Have Consequences, Sometimes Unintended
By Mark I
Jeffrey Lord has a very important piece at The American Spectator online today. He recounts the often overlooked story of the 1986 Senate elections, in which the GOP lost control of the Senate, their impact on the defeat of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, and the consequences for Roe v. Wade six years later.
Mr. Lord recalls that the GOP lost seven of the twelve freshman Senators who had been elected on Ronald Reagan’s coattails in the Republican Senate takeover of 1980. Six of those Senators were defeated by less than four percentage points in their 1986 bids for reelection. All seven were the victims of apathy and hostility from relatively small handfuls of conservative voters in their home states.
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