Whole Hog Politics: 6 counties to watch in a two-faced election year

January, named for that two-faced Roman god, brings us into a midterm election year. And Janus makes a good emblem for these biennial contests, which are full of double meaning. For the broad electorate, particularly the persuadable voters who decide our elections on a national level, midterms are backward-looking. They are about the implicit and...