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America Votes; Democracy Wins (Maybe)
Richard Gephardt and Scott Miller sift through the evidence and speculate on the future of democracy in America.
The US mid-term elections are (almost) over. We know the headlines: Democratic Senate, Republican House, many election deniers denied election. Democrats win by not losing; Republicans prove that when bad candidates deserve to lose, they do. Perhaps most importantly—after all the sturm und drang of the last election cycle—voters voted, ballots were counted, winners celebrated and losers conceded. In other words, America had a normal election.
But is it too early to say that…
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