Candidates matter, campaigns matter, spending matters, and local quirks matter, too. But, like all elections, this fall’s midterm has also been heavily shaped by systemic structural factors that transcend the competitions between individual candidates.
As the campaign careens toward its close, keeping some of these factors in mind may help keep in perspective what Tuesday’s results will—and won’t—say about the balance of power between the parties. What are those structural factors? Four seem to me the most important: CONT.
Ron Brownstein, National Journal