Midterms

The midterms follow a predictable pattern, which offers no guide to presidential contests. Why pretend otherwise?

The gains suggest that Trump’s victory in 2016 was not a fluke

It’s the culture wars, stupid

The effort to Make America Great Again will continue, just a little more slowly and circuitously than it would have done had the Republicans held the house

The President pulled out the stops to keep the Senate – and he has reason to gloat here, as he already is

Compared to 1994, 2006, and 2010, this would appear a tamer reaction to an embattled president

The Democrats are now in the majority on committees with subpoena power

The presidential election of 2016 should have taught pundits and politicos not to trust the polls. But the nation’s most highly educated seem to be the slowest to learn

Trump is so divisive that the networks couldn’t agree on who he was dividing

She is testing the theory of appealing to the mythical moderate suburban Republican