Free Download Ed Kilgore, "Election 2014: Why the Republicans Swept the Midterms"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0812247442 | EPUB | pages: 118 | 0.4 mb
The Republican party overwhelmingly carried the midterm elections of 2014, winning nearly every contested congressional and gubernatorial seat and taking the Senate after eight years of Democratic control. Many have characterized this sweep as a sign of a fundamental political shift toward the GOP. But acclaimed political commentator Ed Kilgore argues that the results of the midterm elections were a predictable outcome that was less an ideological watershed than the culmination of several long-term cyclical and historical trends.