Control Quote by Steve Kornacki

Midterm elections, by nature, just aren't about the party that's out of power. But presidential years are different.

— Steve Kornacki

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did…

— Juan Williams

Midterm elections for first-term presidents are notoriously difficult.

— Tim Kaine

Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.

— Michael Beschloss

There is a route to the presidency in this country, and it's called the Electoral College, and both candidates base their campaigns on winning…

— Rush Limbaugh

If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone…

— Kevin Spacey

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and then won reelection: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower,…

— Mitch McConnell

Midterms are always hard. And the midterm in a two-term president's second term is especially hard.

— Hillary Clinton

Since 1900, only three other [than Donald Trump ] presidents have won the White House with a smaller percentage of the popular vote. Woodrow…

— Chuck Todd

George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the…

— Peggy Noonan

I'm hesitant to read too much into elections that don't occur during the midterms or presidential election years.

— Harry Enten

Politics was not just about winning the election, it was about winning decisively--having the momentum to carry out one's vision. Historically, any president who…

— Dan Brown