Jackie Calmes: No matter what happens in the midterms, Republicans won't correct their troubling trajectory

Brace yourself: Voting is underway and we're just one month away from what will likely be the most consequential midterm elections in years. Certainly the most consequential of the 10 cycles I've covered over four decades, perhaps second only to the 1994 elections that gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

Whatever the outcome — whether Republicans win majorities in the House and Senate, one chamber or neither — one thing is all but certain: Win or lose, the result won't be good for the