Election Map Analysis, forecasts, and themes for the Presidential election, Congressional campaigns, and state races For Democrats and progressives, the rallying cry for the Midterm Elections was clear: flip the U.

Cool, mission accomplished. And when it comes to how competitive, candidate selection will matter - a lot. This raises a few important strategic questions for progressives: 1.

What Democrats and progressives can't do is ignore those ideals or get trapped somewhere in the middle, the way Clinton did in Whatever regional strategies end up being pursued, how far left should Dems run?

Candidate-market fit is critical, and although Beto, Abrams, and several progressives outperformed Clinton and were highly-competitive in their respective races, each one fell just short of building the voter coalition they needed for victory.

What's the right balance of progressive policy and coalition-building that will allows Dems and progressives to go into rural districts and defeat Trump base-leaning opponents?

At the moment, Bernie seems to us like the closest to being able to strike the right balance nationally. As expected, the Midterm results produced a split Congress, with Democrats running the House of Representatives and Republicans in charge of the Senate.

Republicans narrowly expanded their Senate majority from the current after Kyrsten Sinema's win in Arizona to an expected , though two GOP-expected races have yet to be officially called: Mississippi, where there is a runoff election, and Florida, where recount drama is in full swing.

The congressional elections in November were "midterms. Congressional elections use the popular vote to choose winners. Members of the U.

House of Representatives serve two-year terms. All members get elected every midterm and presidential election year. A representative must be at least 25, a U.

The number of representatives a state has depends on its population. Find your representative. Bush have seen the President's party gain seats in both houses.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. General elections in the United States that are held two years after the quadrennial elections.

For the most recent midterm election, see United States elections. For the next midterm election, see United States elections. United States.

Federal government. Constitution of the United States Law Taxation. Political parties. Democratic Republican Third parties Libertarian Green.

Other countries. See also: Category:United States midterm elections. The Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico instead serves a four-year term that coincides with the presidential term.

The other 48 state governors and all five territorial governors serve four-year terms. All other state officers for all other states listed serve four-year terms.

There are some states with both positions, so both have been included separately. Forty-nine state legislatures are bicameral; Nebraska is unicameral.

All legislatures have varying terms for their members. Many have two-year terms for the lower house and four-year terms for the upper house.

Some have all two-year terms and some all four-year terms. Arkansas has a combination of both two- and four-year terms in the same chamber.

All boards listed here have members that serve four-year staggered terms, except Colorado, which has six-year terms, and Guam, which has two-year terms.