What midterm crisis?

For Canadian politicians, the lesson out of the U.S. midterms is that extremism on the right or left is not the answer for the majority of voters.

U.S. President Joe Biden, who was largely written off in the recent U.S. midterm elections, was a clear winner with a Lazarus-style comeback. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/Adam Schultz

Opinion

BY KEVIN LYNCH, PAUL DEEGAN

November 21, 2022

The pollsters, pundits and Twitter blue-check intelligentsia got the U.S. midterms wrong, big time. They were not attuned to the ordinary Americans who went out, did their democratic duty, and rejected extremism. The issues that attracted and repelled voters have implication...

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