When I think of the election results from Tuesday, I am immediately reminded of what happened on November 5, 1946. It was barely one year after the end of World War II. Harry S. Truman had assumed the presidency when FDR died in April 1945. Only nineteen months after taking office, there was a mid-term national election. Here is a brief story of what happened.The nation was restless, exhausted, and bitter. Americans were grappling with post-war inflation, meat shortages, crippling nationwide labor strikes, and what many in the Washington press corps sneeringly viewed as nothing more than a failed Missouri...