Insofar as these fortnightly letters from America have a mission or mandate, it’s that they attempt to summarise what’s going on in and around this nation — and what the general mood is.  Most weeks, this picture is cobbled together without anything approaching cold, hard data. This week, though, a vote! A little gift from the Deep South to those of us grimly waiting around for something to chew on. A special US House election in Tennessee, conducted on Tuesday, seemed to confirm what much of November’s polling told us: unhappy voters are swinging toward Democrats. Republican candidates in this…

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