No more 49 percent nation.(Republicans gain control of both House and Senate)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: November 18, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The political scientists are going to have to rewrite the rules. Presidents' parties are not supposed to gain House seats in off-year elections, especially when the economy is sluggish. Presidents' parties are not supposed to recapture--in fact have never recaptured--a majority of seats in the Senate. Last week George W. Bush's Republicans--and they are George W. Bush's Republicans--did those improbable and impossible things. We now have a Republican government. The margins in both House and Senate are narrow but large enough to be impervious to a party-switcher.

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