| The maximum seasonal gap is between an off-year election and the third quarter of an election year. |
|
| In a sense American politics shuffles on in a perennial two-step of presidential and off-year election cycles. |
|
| In the absence of changes in the composition of the electorate between the on-year and the off-year election, there will be no change in the composition of the legislature. |
|
| The off-year election on November 4 delivered another blast of good news to a White House already buoyed by boffo economic numbers. |
|
| They could, however, mobilize values voters for an off-year election, and effectively that's what they have done. |
|
| That was relatively easy to do in governors' races in an off-year election. |
|
| Only twice in the last 75 years has a president's party not lost seats in an off-year election. |
|
| Today, let's talk about Virginia, host of the nation's most interesting off-year election. |
|
| This is an off-year election, meaning we choose senators and congressmen, not a president. |
|
| It has also mirrored the statewide vote in off-year election cycles. |
|
| It was the signature contest of that off-year election cycle. |
|
