What Matters Most During the Midterm Elections

Commentary
U.S. politicians and the chattering classes are focused like laser beams on the upcoming midterm elections in November. This is because the No. 1 job for all politicians is getting elected and reelected—everything else is a distant second.
The latest Rasmussen Reports polling on July 9 shows that “48% of Likely U.S. Voters would vote for the Republican candidate, while 40% would vote for the Democrat.”
Even Democrat-friendly polls like Economist/YouGov and Monmouth show Republicans are up by a few percentage points, causing shockwaves among elected Democrats, their paid consultants, and media allies.
At this point, the conventional wisdom is that Republicans will almost certainly flip the House of Representatives and will probably flip the Senate in November, as left-leaning Politico graphically depicted here. However, opinions vary and usually depend on the politics of the observer….

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