Matters of Policy & Politics

Area 45: A Blue Wave In The November 2018 Election?

What are the most important factors in the odds of the House flipping for a third time in a little over a decade?

Matters of Policy & PoliticsJune 19, 2018
Area 45: A Blue Wave In The November 2018 Election?

Will we see a big “blue wave” this November that puts Democrats back in control of the US House of Representatives or a more modest action the hurts Republicans but doesn’t end their majority status? David Brady, the Hoover Institution’s Davies Senior Fellow and a Stanford political scientist, assesses the current state of the electorate – and what the recent vote in California says about the odds of the House flipping for a third time in a little over a decade.

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