Jay Cost has devised a new system for analyzing this year’s midterm elections, in which he looks at the quality of opponents to incumbents, the popularity of the president, and voters’ notions of the state of the country. Here’s the conclusion, though it’s worth reading the whole piece to understand his methodology:

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