Midterm Elections And First-Term Presidents
Midterm election results
No matter how popular a first-term president is, modern midterm congressional elections have rarely spelled good news for his political party. Since 1946, the president's party has almost invariably suffered losses in one or both chambers of Congress. The one exception: the 2002 midterms, when Republicans benefited from George W. Bush's post-Sept. 11 surge in popularity.
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