Back to 'the economy, stupid' How a slowdown will influence America's presidential contest (Financial Times)

..."The widespread notion that a downturn or a recession gives a clear advantage to the Democratic presidential challenger is not always supported by the facts," says Michael Lind, a political historian at the New America Foundation in Washington. "The past offers just as much evidence that we could get a Republican president with a Democratic Congress in November as a Democratic control of both." ...

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