Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Can Democrats Avoid Another Midterm Debacle?

With politics increasingly nationalized, the president’s popularity will matter more than anything.

February 23, 2021 at 12:58 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

A lot to do.
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We’re a little more than a year away from the first round of primary elections in the runup to the 2022 midterms. It’s far too early to have any idea what the outcome will be. But it’s not too early to start paying attention. (Sort of.)