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Primary Primer: Your Guide to the 2018 Midterms

By David Hawkings
Posted November 8, 2017 at 3:16pm

By David Hawkings and Thomas McKinless and Sara Wise

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Election Day 2018 — when the question of which party will control Congress — is one year out on Nov. 6. While midterm elections don’t get as many voters or as much media attention as presidential ones, these congressional races are important too. Roll Call senior editor David Hawkings has a reminder on how these biennial elections work.

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