Nigeria, Nov. 9 -- It is no longer news that the Republican Party lost the midterm elections in the US last week. It really ought not to have been newsworthy but for the toxic character of the incumbent president of the US midterm elections in America long since turned into plebiscites on the performance of the sitting president. This is the significance of the fact that the president's party has lost in 19 of the last 22 midterm elections. But so horrible has Mr Trump been in office, that a different outcome would have been hard to explain. No surprise then, that pollsters called the outcome of the elections right this time.

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