Summary

Conventional wisdom in U.S. politics holds that foreign policy rarely matters in midterm elections. When it comes to the composition of Congress, voters care about many issues, but ordinarily, what the United States does overseas is usually not among them. Bread-and-butter concerns (or, in today’s parlance, the issue of affordability) are much more likely to drive voters’ decisions about who should represent them.

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