Midterm Elections Twenty Eighteen

The 2018 United States elections were held Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections were the first elections to occur during the presidency of Republican Donald Trump. Thirty-five of the 100 seats in the United States Senate and all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives were contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial governorships as well as numerous state and local elections were also contested.

Look for Words

Look at the pattern of letters in the source phrase MIDTERM ELECTIONS TWENTY EIGHTEEN. Write down any words you see. Look for relevant words, look for short connecting words like IN, OF, ARE, IS and others. To help the brain stay fresh it helps to shuffle the sequence of letters in the phrase. Do any of these new sequences help make different words more apparent?

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Explore Long Words

Often the most significant words to appear in a name or phrase are the longest words. One root word has several suffixes found in this phrase: INTERMITTENT is reinforced with the appearance of INTERMITTENTLY, INTERMITTENCE, and INTERMITTENCY. Were there sporadic or periodic elements, or odd delays or surges, involved in this specific election? In what way was this process especially DETERMINISTIC? This time around was there DISCONTENTMENT IN ELECTIONEERING WITH THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS?

NOTE: To improve clarity, it is customary to capitalize the words found within letters in the source phrase. If there is a term in capital letters this indicates it can be made from letters in the original statement.

For comparison, the phrase MIDTERM ELECTIONS TWENTY FOURTEEN also contains INTERMITTENTLY, INTERMITTENCY, AND INTERMITTENCE, as well as DISCONTENTMENT but these long words appear further down the list of long words. Statistically, they appear to be less relevant in the phrase 2014 Midterm Elections than they were are in the 2018 version.

GENERAL ELECTIONS TWENTY SIXTEEN did not have nearly the same letter pattern, however. Long words of note in that phrase are ENTERTAININGLY, NONSENSICALITY, INTERESTINGLY, and CONTRASTINGLY.

Explore Rare Words

Great words in a lexagram are unique to the subject matter. These are usually long words but terms using unusual letter combinations also appear. Here are some rare words found in MIDTERM ELECTIONS TWENTY EIGHTEEN. Several significant terms appear in very few English names and are unique to that phrase. 

Consider what CENTILE, CENTRIST, and CENTRISM have to say about the events of the 2018 Midterms. How about CEDING and CHINOS? Was there any sign of those?