Checks and Balance: End of midterm
Checks and Balance from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The big guns are out. Donald Trump has three rallies planned before election day. Barack Obama has popped up in several battleground states. The former presidents will, separately, converge on Pennsylvania at the weekend, where Obama will be joined by a lesser-spotted figure on the trail: President Biden. What’s at stake in these midterm elections?
The Economist’s Elliott Morris assesses what pundits have got wrong about the campaign. We consider why Democratic warnings about the future of democracy aren’t cutting through. And the Republican Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin summarises his party’s closing arguments.
John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon.
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| 0:27.0 | winters can be bitterly cold. |
| 0:29.0 | Until 1960, |
| 0:31.0 | Maine held its statewide and congressional elections |
| 0:34.0 | in September to avoid the freezing weather |
| 0:36.0 | when most other states went to the polls. |
| 0:39.0 | The state was reliably Republican, |
| 0:41.0 | but the margin of victory for Republican candidates |
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| 0:46.0 | As Maine goes, so goes the nation, |
| 0:49.0 | the saying used to be. |
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| 0:54.0 | the 1958 midterms, |
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