First midterm elections are a cold shower for the occupant of the White House — usually. You have to dig deep in history to find exceptions.
A man votes in the 2022 midterm election on Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.A man votes in the 2022 midterm election on Election Day on Nov. 8, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.Midterm elections are expected to push back against the party of the president who won two years earlier.Moreover, the results could also be read as a partial rebuke of thepresident, Donald Trump.
Democrats have had their"big wave" years, too, such as in 2006 when they seized the House and surprised many by also squeaking out a bare majority in the Senate. It was a setback for the Republican president at the time, George W. Bush, who called it a"thumpin'." approval rating was below 50%. And as for Democrats, in particular, the last four lost an average of 45 House seats in the first midterm after they were elected.seats in both chambers of Congress in his first midterm as his New Deal found wide acceptance in the depths of the Great Depression. George W. Bush also added a few seats in both the House and Senate in his first midterm during the national trauma that followed the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The other was the lack of"coattails" attached to Kennedy's narrow win in the Electoral College in 1960. Kennedy's edge in the popular vote nationwide was barely six-figures that year, and Democrats added only a modest 10 seats nationally that year.
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