This is a historic off-year election, it really is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storming the Castle] Reference

It's an off-year election, and so that's what you get.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference

It's also the day after, right? in this off-year elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

He certainly didn't in those off-year gubernatorial elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Landscape For 2010 Election] Reference

But why is an off-year election getting so much attention now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009] Reference

KING: This is the most money ever spent in an off-year election.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference

Democrats are savoring their off-year election victories this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2005] Reference

ZAHN: Well, you heard that 60 percent in the last off-year election.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2002] Reference

The in-party always loses seats in off-year elections like this one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Landscape For 2010 Election] Reference

LARRY KING, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening on this off-year election night.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference

So how big a deal was this off-year election in the scheme of things?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

James Carville, is this campaign nastier than most off-year elections?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2006] Reference

What effect will Hurricane Katrina have on the 2006 off-year elections?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2005] Reference

The politicking has to do with off-year elections next year, supposedly.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2001] Reference

Because what you're talking about is working on an issue in an off-year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2009] Reference

COOPER: You also have elections, Ed Henry, coming up, off-year elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005] Reference

What effect will Hurricane Katrina have on the off-year elections in 2006?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 8, 2005] Reference

ROBERTS: Well, I think off-year elections are a referendum on the presidency.    From Wordnik.com.  [November's Elections Reminiscent of 1982 Elections] Reference

And the midterm elections, I mean, the off-year elections this year showed that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2005] Reference

In off-year elections, it's about motivating your base, getting your voters out.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2006] Reference

How important are these decidedly off-year elections to the president's fortunes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference

And the stakes are high for the president in tonight's off-year election results.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference

There's a 20 million surge and decline between presidential and off-year elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can The Jobless Become A Political Force?] Reference

Home of the world's longest boardwalk and the site of a very tight off-year election.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2009] Reference

It was an off-year election to fill a vacant seat and Owens has to run again next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

This is going -- this is going to make her a hot property in the 2010 off-year elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2008] Reference

There is no reason to think that this is sustainable in off-year or post-Obama elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Bloat] Reference

This is an off-year election, meaning we choose senators and congressmen, not a president.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2002] Reference

Typically, these type of off-year elections are reflective of local events, local politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001] Reference

The White House is saying that, you know, the results of the off-year election, not too bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2009] Reference

LOTHIAN: And in previous off-year elections, Democrats have played up gubernatorial victories.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Aaron, it is an off-year election that is more off than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001] Reference

And anytime you have off-year or not a presidential election, you're not going to get the numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2010] Reference

As you know, it is an off-year election, but boy, the pressure is certainly still on the president.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference

And you know, sometimes these off-year elections are a very good indicator of what's going to happen the next year.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009] Reference

But I mean, historically, as we just heard, the link between the off-year elections and next year's elections are weak.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2005] Reference

Turning now to American politics and the Republicans 'dismal showing during this year's elections -- off-year elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005] Reference

CAFFERTY: That's just -- that's going to be potentially a huge story this off-year election year, isn't it, that NSA stuff?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006] Reference

FLEISCHER: Well, I think, you know, in all cases, you have to take a look at off-year elections as local elections primarily.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2001] Reference