The Week in Review
Voters across the country went to the polls last Tuesday to cast their ballots in an historic midterm election. Riding a wave of unprecedented enthusiasm for a midterm, Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. The 2018 midterms will send one of the largest classes of freshman Members to Washington in recent history — replacing a cadre of centrist, suburban Republicans with largely establishment-backed Democrats that could grow the party’s moderate wing. Meanwhile, an upstart group of unabashedly progressive candidates will be sworn in alongside as many as 15 new members of the GOP’s hardline Freedom Caucus, further fueling a dynamic that has sewn internal fissures into each of the major parties. The 2018 midterms mark the fourth straight midterm election (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018) with at least one chamber of Congress flipping.
