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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: 'Republicans will take the House': David Frum predicts the U.S. midterms and lays out the stakes for American Jews
Description: Today, Americans head to the polls in their midterm elections, choosing all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, plus one-third of all elected senators, various governors and other high-ranking state legislators.
Analysts are predicting high voter turnout given what's at stake. Americans are mad about the rising cost of living, rampant inflation and a troubled economy—but also climate change, abortion access and immigration. In a political world where conspiracy theories run amok and political divisions run deep, both Democrats and Republicans feel a lot is on the line. They may be right.
American democracy se...