What is a mid-term election? What effect can mid-term elections have on the president's party in Congress?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: An ideal response will:
1. Explain that a mid-term election is a congressional election in the middle of a presidential term.
2. Explain that the president's party usually loses seats in mid-term elections due to public disaffection or governing challenges that tend to hurt a president's popularity.
3. Explain that voters are especially likely to punish a president's party in the sixth year of a two-term presidency. For example, the loss of several Senate seats in 2014 gave Republicans a majority in both the House and Senate.
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An urban theory that the goal of local developers is to maximize rental return rather than maximize profit is:
A. global capital dominance. B. urban regimes. C. traditional elitism. D. growth machine theory.
Because India allows any group of seven or more people to form a labor union, about how many labor unions currently exist in India?
a. 500 b. 1,000 c. 5,000 d. 10,000 e. Over 25,000