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Why the Democrats won't win the House in 2018

  • Written by Anthony McGann, Professor of Government and Public Policy, Strathclyde University

The result of the presidential election may have taken some people by surprise, but the fact that Republicans retained control of the House of Representatives was completely predictable.

Republicans would have retained the House almost regardless of who voters supported for president, barring an improbable landslide. As we argue in our book “G...

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