US mid-term polls result

THE result of Tuesday's mid-term election in the US has been more of a triumph for the anti-incumbency factor than of a victory for the opposition Republican Party. Through the election, the US voters have expressed their unhappiness with the way president Obama and his ruling Democratic Party have been running the affairs of the government. More to the point, the polls result further indicates that the voting public is fed up with politicians in general at the Capitol Hill, a symptom attributable to the unending Democratic-Republican face-offs in the legislature over the last two years, sometimes shutting down the government itself.  

The Republicans by winning control of both the Chambers of Congress will definitely be in a position to dictate terms in American politics. While the Senate majority leader from Kentucky, Mitch McConnell, will be poised for exercising his newfound power, he cannot at the same time be oblivious of the basic reason for the public's general disillusionment with the Obama administration, if only due to a too powerful opposition in the House that was out to block about every decision that the administration wanted to make. And if the situation continues, that would surely reflect negatively on the Republican Party in the upcoming presidential election of 2016.  

That calls for a more pragmatic and responsible approach towards governance from the Republicans as well as the Democrats.  Reassuringly, both president Obama and the US Senate's new Republican leader have pledged to end the prevailing political gridlock and make the remaining two years of Obama presidency productive.