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Opinion · 117th Congress

Georgia settles the Senate again

According to the preliminary numbers, 36 percent of voters said they identified as Republicans, where Republicans have been in 10 of the prior 19 elections from 1984 forward.

Opinion · 117th Congress

Midterm jinxes and presidential rebounds

After all, Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s job approvals were in the upper 40s when their first midterms rolled around, and Democrats lost 63 House seats in 2010 and 52 seats in 1994.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Back to the Future With Party ID

For the two elections where the party advantage was even, Republicans were able to regain the majority, once after 40 years in the minority (1994) and again in 2010 after pundits declared a 40-year

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: A Message for Midterm Poll Jumpers

Or, to be precise, these three elections: 1994:Newt Gingrich led the Republicans to a more than 54-seat pickup and control of the House for the first time in four decades.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Will the Marches Make a Difference?

The National Rifle Association went into the 1994 midterm elections with a plan: Target politicians who had voted for that year’s crime bill.

Opinion · 115th Congress

Opinion: Time’s Up for DiFi? Not If Democrats Are Smart

way, the instinct to heckle Feinstein, instead of throw the woman a parade, should be a red flag for all Democrats as the party tries to figure out a way to win back the House and Senate in the first midterm

Opinion · 115th Congress

Nancy Pelosi’s Path Back to House Speaker

Republicans were thrown out on their ears, and Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House and the first Democrat to hold the gavel since Newt Gingrich’s 1994 revolution.