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The United States is gearing up for midterm elections. What are they and what's at stake?

  • Written by David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
The United States is gearing up for midterm elections. What are they and what's at stake?Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/AAP

Midterm elections in the United States elect the House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, and thousands of state legislative and executive offices. For all their magnitude and importance, these elections attract far less attention than presidential elections and have much lower turnout.

But the November 8 2022...

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