Dear Questioner,
This seems like a question that could've easily been answered with a quick google search, but alas, you've decided to make some poor Dear Letterbox member do the research for you. You're welcome, by the way.
To put it simply, the US mid-term election is just dull, but out of courtesy, I put some factual information down below. The mid-term elections take place about halfway through the current president's term (You would never have guessed that, right?) They primarily focus on the two chambers of the US congress: the US Senate and the House of Representatives. Congress makes nationwide laws; the House decides which laws are voted on while the Senate can block or approve them.
Members of the House are elected for 2-year terms, so all 435 seats are decided during the mid-term elections. Senators are elected to staggered six-year terms. A third of the 100 seats are up for grabs in any mid-term election. You may be wondering, "Why is this so important?" Gary Nordlinger, a professor of politics at George Washington University, says, "Whoever controls the house or the senate controls the agenda." Basically, the mid-term elections decide how the president's agenda is run. Ideally, for the president, his party would control the two houses of congress. All of this relies on how the mid-term elections go.
To conclude, the mid-term election decides who is in charge of running the nitty gritty of the United States government. They also act as a verdict on how the current president is doing.
But as I said before, they're mostly just really boring.
Sincerely,
Dear Letterbox
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