Roads to Congress 2018

​Sean D. Foreman is Professor of Political Science at Barry University, USA.Marcia L. Godwin is Professor of Public Administration at the University of La Verne, USA. Walter Clark Wilson is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

• Part I Congress in Transition.- 1. The 2018 Midterm Elections and the Changing Congress.- 2. Toward a More Inclusive Union? Examining the Increased Diversity of Candidates and Members of Congress.- 3. Fear and Loathing on Twitter: Exploring Negative Rhetoric in Tweets During the 2018 Midterm Election.- 4. Partisanship in the Trump Era: Situating Contemporary Congressional Parties in Historical Perspective.- 5. President Trump’s Effect on House Republicans.- Part II U.S. House.- 6. California’s 48th Congressional District: Sunset for Reagan Country.- 7. Florida’s 26th and 27th Congressional Districts: Two Cuban American Strongholds Support Non-Cuban Democrats for Congress.- 8. Michigan’s 11th Congressional District and the Anti-Trump Wave.- 9. Minnesota’s 1st and 8th Congressional Districts: Riptide—Two Republicans Prevail Against the Blue Wave.- 10. New York’s 19th and 22nd Congressional Districts: The Blue Wave Overwhelms the RedTide.- 11. A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Conor Lamb, the Pennsylvania Wunderkind.- Part III U.S. Senate.- 12. North Dakota Senate Race: A Right Turn.- 13. A Senate Trifecta: Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.- 14. Tennessee Senate Race: Call It What You Want, but Tennessee Is a Red Wall to the South.- 15. Texas Senate Race: “If You Want to Run in Texas, You Can’t Be a Liberal Man”—Beto O’Rourke Challenges Ted Cruz, and Conventional Wisdom.- Part IV Roads Ahead.- 16. Lessons Learned from the 2018 Elections.