The campaign was sleepy even by the standards of off-year elections.

Although off-year elections can be very important, he said, the results as they come in are not of nonstop interest.

One party may lose big in off-year elections; never just incumbents.

As off-year elections go, this year's are further off than most.

Instead, the vast majority of these off-year elections are held at the municipal level.

Share prices also tend to fall in the months leading up to an off-year election, as they did during the last three such periods.

They figured that after the Democrats' losses in the off-year elections last week, he would not want to talk politics.

Voters will head to the polls tomorrow for the most important off-year election in recent memory.

We are looking at a much more traditional off-year election - which means the House is in play.

"The press will try to make Iraq the cause of whatever historical problems we would normally have in an off-year election."