Since the Civil War, midterm elections have enabled the president’s party to gain ground in the House of Representatives only three times, and those were in...
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Norman Solomon is co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org. His books include "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death" (2006) and "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State" (2007).