US citizens must use mid-term elections to rebalance power

In ten days, the United States will go to the polls for the mid-term elections.

In some ways, it may represent the most important election its citizens have been involved in for generations.

What is at stake is not just the possibility of the Democrats wresting control of Congress from Republicans, but a real opportunity for US citizens to seize back power from the current Bush White House.

The US has faced international ...