{
    "byline": "By W. James Antle III",
    "charset": "UTF-8",
    "dir": null,
    "excerpt": "There have always been two ways to look at the midterm elections: The national environment heavily favors Democrats, but the congressional map gives Republicans a glimmer of hope to hold their majorities or at least avoid getting hammered by a historic blue wave.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 4363,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": ""
}