2006 Congressional Elections

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at and compares the demographics of Democratic and Republican voters in order to establish some of the characteristics of the kind of voters who voted for each political group. The paper shows how the congressional election did not mark a particular change in the voting practices of registered voters in the United States. The paper notes that both Republican and Democrat members declared lack of enthusiasm for their former congress members.

From the Paper:

"The 2006 congressional elections - the midterm elections of congressional representatives after the re-election of George W Bush as president - provided a series of interesting results. Despite predictions in many publications that the Republicans would sweep the board again, in fact, the democrats took the congress. Theories in the following weeks linked the elections to dissatisfaction with the waging of war in Iraq:
"The voter's decisively expressed dissatisfaction with President Bush's Iraq policy be electing a democratic congress (Gilboa, 2006, 1)"".

Sample of Sources Used:

• Edie.net Poll shows that Republican Voters are Environmentalists, too from http://www.edie.net/news/news_story_printable.asp?id=1697 (Sept 1999)
• Gilboa, E. US Strategy in the Middle East: Effects of the 2006 Congressional Elections and the Baker-Hamilton Report The Begin-Sadat center for strategic Studies (December 19th, 2006)
• Goeas, E. George Washington University Battleground 2006: Republican Strategic Analysis The Tarrance Group (2006)
• HSPH Health Care is not Playing a Major Role in 2006 Congressional Elections, but could be a Factor in Selected Close Races HSPH Press Release, (November 2006.)
• Mirengoff, P. One Last Post Mortem (On the 2006 Congressional Elections) from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765105/posts (January 2007)

More papers on 2006 Congressional Elections:

• Term Paper # 131424 : "Midterm Elections of 2006"
• Research Paper # 71487 : "Strategies for Local Elections"
• Research Paper # 100348 : "Voter Turnout in Canadian Federal Elections"

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