Republicans set to take Senate - and democracy pays the price

How the Right, with an army of lawyers, has sought to stop poor Americans voting in the midterm elections

Charles Laurence

The Republicans will capture the Senate in today’s midterm elections in America, according to Nate Silver, the polling maestro who established his credentials with his spot-on prediction of President Obama’s re-election victory in 2012.

But how much impact will the re-branding of the Senate from Democrat to Republican actually have?

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Charles Laurence is a US correspondent for The Week.co.uk. He is a former New York bureau chief for The Daily Telegraph. He divides his time between Manhattan and Woodstock, upstate New York.