COVER STORY: Election outcome will weaken Obama*

As News Weekly goes to press, Americans are voting in elections which will give the Republicans control of one or both houses of the US Congress, effectively imposing a veto on Obama’s domestic agenda and making him a lame-duck President for the second half of his current term.Unless Obama can pull the rabbit out of a hat, it seems likely that the resurgent Republicans will comfortably capture control of the House of Representatives, where all 435 seats are up for election, and increase their nu…

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