Lessons Learned from the 2018 Elections
The 2018 election that swept Democrats into the U.S. House majority was a wave, but not a tsunami. It crested short of elevating Democrats to majority status in the Senate but nevertheless resulted in the largest Democratic gains since 1974, and a 35-seat
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ROADS TO CONGRESS 2018 THE
American Elections in the Trump Era
The Roads to Congress 2018
Sean D. Foreman Marcia L. Godwin • Walter Clark Wilson Editors
The Roads to Congress 2018 American Elections in the Trump Era
Editors Sean D. Foreman Department of History and Political Science Barry University Miami, FL, USA
Marcia L. Godwin Department of Public and Health Administration University of La Verne La Verne, CA, USA
Walter Clark Wilson Department of Political Science and Geography The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX, USA
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This work is dedicated to those who continue to raise and examine intriguing questions about election dynamics and trends, and to enduring democracy in America.
Foreword
Like most institutions, Congress has changed over the course of the past few decades. In the almost three decades that I walked those halls—voting, meeting with constituents, and representing the voice of my South Florida community—I was, and will always be, in awe of this great nation and the privilege it afforded me to be a part of this enduring body. On September 3, 1989, I was sworn in as the first Hispanic woman and first Cuban American in Congress. My background was in education. I had been a public and private school teacher, as well as principal, of a small private bilingual school in Hialeah, a working-class area of South F
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