The grand pageant of American politics, the election of a new President, takes place once every four years and draws to it a vast national--even global--audience of observers, analysts and commentators who declaim its significance and decry its flaws. A simultaneous event, the election of the Congress of the United States, arguably the anchor of American democracy, is often treated as a sideshow.
Yet the makeup of the House of Representatives and the Senate is as important as who is elected President. The character of Congress depends entirely upon its collective political balance, which in turn depends on the mood and...
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