LAST Tuesday, Americans held their mid-term elections in which state governors and legislators as well as federal legislators are elected into offices conventionally. The electoral outcomes saw the Democrats lose their majority in the Congress by polling a paltry 186 to the Republicans’ 239 in the 435-member House of Representatives while managing to retain control of the Senate with 50 Senators to the Republicans’ 46 in the 100 seat Senate. Hitherto, the Democrats had controlled the bicameral legislature with 256 seats to the Republicans’ 179 in the Congress and 57 seats to Republicans 41 and Independents’ two in the Senate.
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