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What to Look for in 2016

By Troy Senik
Wednesday, October 29 2014

For the next few days, political chatter is going to be focused largely on the U.S. Congress. Don’t get used to that. For one thing, the strong probability that Republicans will take over the U.S. Senate in this year’s midterm elections means that Barack Obama will likely spend his last two years in office with a Capitol Hill controlled entirely by his adversaries. If past is prologue, that means we should expect two years of the White House trying to govern almost entirely by executive fiat. It’s likely immigration will be the first front on which that fight breaks out —…

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