US Politics
Marion McKeone: Tribalism trumps all else in US politics
With just over a week to go, none of the traditional mid-term metrics are adding up, but there is a glint of good news for Democrats in the plummeting support on both sides for near-total bans on abortion
Illegal gun-for-cash raffles, Republican royalty campaigning for Democrats, a former Republican governor running as a Democratic challenger, an avid pro-lifer caught up in multiple abortion scandals – welcome to the 2022 US mid-term elections
It’s a universally held truth that mid-terms are a referendum on the occupant of the White House. But that truth presupposes that the previous president has taken himself off the political stage and on to the lucrative after-dinner speaking circuit.
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