Political tsunami is an American term or idiom used to describe an ovewhelming victory by one political party over another. The origin of this term or who coined the term is unknown. The first use of "political tsunami" was by noted political analysts such as Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Bob Shrum, and James Carville to name a few. They used this to describe the most probable outcome of the general midterm election of November 7, 2006. when the Democratic Party swept the Republican Party out of power in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Using the term Tsunami in politics possibly comes from the devastating tsumami of 2004 which killed approximately 230,000 people and which received media attention from all over the world and became a topic discussed broadly. The use of tsunami is now used to describe the midterm election of 1994 when Republican Party swept the Democrats from power.
