re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, I’m showing my Canadianness here but I really don’t understand the deal where some senators are up for election on Presidential years and others up on off years. Mid term elections have always been a tough concept for me to grasp.

Wouldn’t it be to President/House one year then Senate two years later then President/House two years after that, etc, etc.? That way all terms are universal at 4 years and elections become far less confusing.

House is every two years, President is every four. Senators serve 6 years, but their terms are staggered, so a third are up every two years. So, in 2000 president, all of the House, and 33 Senators; 2002, all of the House and 33 Senators; 2004 president, all of the House, 34 Senators, and so on and so forth.