---
"title": "Charting the Mid-Term Election"
"description": "A comparison of key political and economic indicators that will help shape this November's mid-term election with the same indicators taken at the same stage of the previous four mid-term campaigns offers good and bad news to both parties."
"date": "2006-09-06"
"authors":
  -
    "name": "Tom Rosentiel"
    "job_title": "Guest Contributor"
"url": "https://alpha.pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/2006/09/06/charting-the-midterm-election/"
"categories":
  - "Election 2006"
---

# Charting the Mid-Term Election

![Indicators](https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/old-assets/obdeck/60-1.gif){.align}

These statistics have been culled from publicly available sources, including the Gallup Organization, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, the Energy Information Administration, the Cook Political Report, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, the University of Michigan and other news organizations.