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America votes! Why should we care?
Jon Snow explains why people in the UK should care about what happens in the US midterm elections.
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Pennsylvania is once again in the spotlight as a decisive swing state in the upcoming midterm elections. At stake isn’t just the US senate seat from here but also who gets to control the whole electoral process in the state from the governor down. President Trump and many Republicans still blame local officials for having…
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A Republican rout is expected at tomorrow’s US midterm elections. But is that a rebuke from the electorate for President Barack Obama? Felicity Spector looks at the numbers.
Tuesday’s midterm elections in the US are for seats in Congress, not the White House, but Republicans are calling it a referendum on Barack Obama, with Sarah Palin predicting a “political earthquake”.
The backlash against President Obama in the US midterm elections has even spread to those who depend on the aid they could lose if the Republicans win power, as Sarah Smith reports from Kentucky.
In last November’s US midterm elections, voters sent to Congress a man whose grandparents had fled the holocaust – who’d studied at some of New York’s most prestigious schools – and gone onto a career in banking.
Whatever the result of the US midterm elections, it will set the stage for the race for the White House in 2024.
In the US, a special election in a swing district in New York has challenged the predictions for November’s midterm elections.
Jon Snow explains why people in the UK should care about what happens in the US midterm elections.