My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

History provides a healthy warning against giddiness among the winners, as well as a warning that midterms don't always lead to Presidential wins. That being said, this last midterm most certainly meets the criteria of a "wave" election that will change American politics. We look at why it joins the ranks of 1974, 1994, 1938, 2010 and 1946. Elections with "shock" value. We ha...

A look at John Quincy Adams in 1826 (his midterm held 200 years ago) and Cleveland in 1894.

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There's an expectation that every midterm will be a wave. 2026 well could be, in line with 1994, 2014 or 2006. But it's not automatic. In this episode we discuss the modern reality of midterms. Party losses are getting lower on average, and what a wave is has changed.

In this episode we focus on 1990, the so-called Seinfeld Election (or a midterm about nothing * which...

4 years ago we said this... Call 2022 the Mick Jagger midterm - neither party got fully what they wanted. Both parties experienced win and losses. It is, so far, largely a "stave midterm" where the President's party lost less seats than expected - we've discussed a few of these on this podcast, and thus for the party expected to have lost seats a kind of win. Yet in this case...

In the run up to the Civil War, former first lady Julia Tyler participated in a political debate. Moderns will appreciate her participation in politics as an empowered well written woman. Her cause less so.

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