The Myth of the Angry White Male What has sprung up is a strange kind of thinking.... Americans are unhappy with their lot. They are feeling insecure layoffs and corporate downsizing have made their future uncertain. Stirred up by talk radio, the theory goes, large numbers of formerly sensible people have embraced 'hate' and 'extremism.' Most of these, according to the media, are white guys. A Washington Post ABC pre-election poll asked voters if they were angry 'about the way the federal government works.' Four out of five white males said no. 62 percent of white men voted for Republican House candidates (38 percent for Democrats in 1994, a ten-point increase from the 1990 midterm elections). But was this special to their gender In 1994 white women voted for Republican House candidates by a 55 to 45 percent majority. Significantly, there isn't single article decrying 'angry white females.'
Quotes about midterm (16 Quotes)
Overall, I think there's been a profound change in sentiment after the market hit its five-year low in early October, ... The market is factoring in a possible resolution of the Iraq crisis. With the Republican victories in the midterm elections, there's a possibility of a tax cut for dividends. That's like a tectonic shift in fundamentals.
A lot of people are engaging in political posturing ahead of the midterm elections, but it's not clear that a lot of them are willing to do what it takes to actually help consumers.
In order for Republicans to maintain control, they've gotta be able to show that can solve real peoples' problems, and obviously, for Bill Clinton, to minimize the traditional downturn of a midterm election, and really, his first two years is all he's got.
You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
There are many immediate, midterm and long-term issues that will literally be life and death for people living with HIVAIDS.
Intimidated, Sternberg took his professor's advice and enrolled in an introductory applied mathematics class, yet that too proved difficult. I failed the midterm and the professor recommended that I drop the class, ... So I did.
The debate over the next nominee will do far more to form the battle lines for the '06 midterm elections than anything involving the Congressional leadership,
By almost every relevant measurement, national polls indicate that Republicans are at least as bad off as Democrats were at this point in 1994, before suffering devastating midterm losses.
The midterm elections will be decided in places like Washington state and Michigan, not in Washington, D.C.. Our candidates will have a clear message and clear vision. That's not something you see from Democrats either in D.C. or from their challengers in the states.
Pretty much the only variable factors I can see in the midterm plan are fuel costs. For JAL to turn a profit, some tough cost management is necessary--and it will be impossible to accomplish if another such event were to happen.
The good jobs report bought the bulls a reprieve, and now it is up to earnings to carry the torch. We're still heading right into the seasonally weak February and March months in a bearish midterm election year with rates rising and oil prices rallying. Januaries tend to start strong, but it is how they finish that matters.
In the midterm plan, we're assuming that the need for investment in semiconductors will intensify, and we've also taken the payment for this acquisition into consideration.
Election years are not great years, generally speaking. You notice a little drop in lobbying business before the midterm elections and you notice a bigger drop-off every four years, in presidential election years.
Competence is not a partisan issue. (T) here is growing concern among Republicans that they could lose their grip on both chambers if the midterm election turns into a referendum on a president with approval ratings in the thirties or worse.