midterm election

基本解释

The president and first lady reunited after two days campaigning separately for candidates in the midterm election.
而两天前，夫妇二人还分别参加了中期国会选举的竞选运动。
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico for seven decades until 2000, regained a congressional majority (with a small allied party) in the midterm election.
到2000年为止，已经统治墨西哥长达70年的革命制度党，在中期选举中重新获得了国会多数席位（包括小型盟党在内）。
On your second question, the midterm election is the internal affair of the US.
关于第二个问题，中期选举是美国的内政。
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Historically,the party that controls the White House loses Congressional seats in a new president's first midterm election.
Presidents historically lose congressional seats in the first midterm election, and analyst Nathan Gonzales.
In the end, many experts predict that liberal Democrats will back down in the health care debate in the hope of passing some sort of reform that will help the president and Democrats in next year's midterm congressional elections, and in the next presidential election in 2012.

Republicans won a stunning victory in the 2002 midterm election by exploiting terrorism to the hilt.
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