After several comprehensive victories by the West Indies’ Test cricketers in England, the cricketing world celebrated the “Blackwash”. Now, the United States of America could wake up to a “Bluewash” in a day or two. The opinion polls, almost unanimously, predict a Democratic Party victory in the mid-term elections. There’s a caveat, though: in the past, Trump or his people have often done a percentage point or two better than the opinion polls suggested.
\n\nLong before he was elected President, Barack Obama pointed out that it wasn’t about red states and blue states; it was all about the United States. Nevertheless, with the United States such a 50:50 country, a wipeout becomes an eye-watering moment for the party shredded by the electorate, and an unprecedented moment of celebration for the winners.
\n\nWhich is why the nail-biting Senate contests in key red states like Texas, Alaska and, good lord, Kansas, are so significant. In all the battleground states, including Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Maine and Michigan, the Democrats are at least competitive. But Texas and Kansas are interesting, with both Democratic candidates, James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas, ahead, even if by five per cent…
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