After the vote, what then?
The mid-term elections might change economic policy dramatically
IN THESE last days before the mid-terms, Washington is blissfully free of politicians. Lawmakers are back home fighting for their seats, or stumping for others. George Bush has decamped to Texas and a nearly non-stop campaign tour. But while the protagonists have gone, Washington's hordes of lobbyists and policy wonks are consumed with speculation—not just about what will happen on November 5th, but what the outcome of the mid-terms means for economic policy.
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