The closest this columnist came to the upset midterm result was the headline of last Saturday’s pre-electoral editorial “Tomorrow never knows,” and the closest this column came was when raising the possibility of the stunning defeat in the September 7 Buenos Aires Province midterms being “a blessing in disguise … who knows whether, in hindsight, it might not have proved a lifeline?” Yet the logic behind this assertion was flawed – it pointed to the government having the chance to rethink in time the folly of painting itself into a corner with a “purple or nothing” strategy when today that strategy would seem to stand supremely vindicated.
Umpteen opinion pieces have already been written on these midterms and this column will try to steer clear of general conclusions, looking at the nuts and bolts as this series has tended to do since its start on April 12 and concentrating on quantitative analysis w
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