| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : NA, United States | | | | TOPICS : politics, election, foreign policy, government, legislation, opposition, party, policy, reform, health | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : The United States appears on the verge of returning to complete Democratic control of the legislative and executive branches of government for the first time since the 1994 'Republican revolution'. Yet the institutional barriers to wholesale policy and legislative change remain formidable, as President George Bush discovered during more recent periods of Republican dominance. |
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