The party in control of the White House is historically known to lose the US congressional midterm elections in the incumbent President's first term. President Barack Obama had a word for it when it happened to him in 2010: "Shellacking".
The Democrats, with their man Joe Biden in the White House, are widely expected to lose the House of Representatives thus. The Senate, which is evenly split at present, could either way; both parties need to improve their tally by just one to take absolute control of the body.
Democrats currently control the White House, the House of Representatives (220 to 212, with three vacancies) and the Senate (50-50 and Democrat Vice-President Kamala Harris's tie-breaker vote).
The White House is not on the ballot for the November 8 midterm elections. But all 435 seats in the House of Representatives are, as well as 35 of the Senate's 100. Also in contention are Governorships and legislatures of 36 of America's 50 states.
"Midterms are usually a referendum on the sitting President," said Doug Schwartz, Director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, whose election findings and forecast are followed closely in political circles. "Having said that, we have noticed that voters are distinguishing between incumbent Democratic Senators and the Democratic President."
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