The Wire

The Republicans in America have staged something of a coup, winning back control of Congress in the mid term elections . It seems a slap in the face for president Barack Obama who generated such hope and came in with such a majority just two years ago John Barron is an ABC journalist and author of The Long Road to the White House – about the 2008 presidential campaign. He says the problem with US politics is the rapidly widening ‘hole in the doughnut’ with a policy vacuum being left between the Democrats and the Tea Party’s pull on the Republicans