Midterm elections analysis with a Hopkins expert

A white sign with black text posted on a city street says - Midterm elections analysis with a Johns Hopkins expert The American political landscape is unsettled after Election Day, with several major races still undecided. Which party had a better night? Political scientist Daniel Schlozman breaks down the midterm winners and losers Though the results of Tuesday's midterm election remain far from clear, with control of U.S. Congress still hanging in the balance, the voting results already mark a historic abnormality. "One of the deep regularities we expect in American politics is midterm loss-that the current president's party loses a substantial number of seats in both houses of Congress," says political scientist Daniel Schlozman , an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. "We have not seen that to the degree we'd expect based on historical averages, even with high inflation and an unpopular president." At press time Wednesday, control of both chambers of Congress remained uncertain and outcomes of state races across the country defied expectations of a sweeping "red wave" motivated by dissatisfaction with inflation and President Joe Biden. The Hub reached out to Schlozman, author of When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History (2015), for early analysis of the day-after elections results. We're not seeing the overwhelming Republican victories that many anticipated with the midterms. Why do you think that is?.