As midterm elections approach, the question of which party will govern Congress remains genuinely unresolved — not by rhetoric, but by arithmetic. Electoral analyst Anthony Salvanto has mapped the specific districts where a few thousand votes, in either direction, could shift the balance of power in the House, the Senate, or both. In a democracy, these narrow contests are not anomalies but the very mechanism through which collective will is translated into governance. The outcome will be written not in national sentiment, but in the granular choices of voters in a handful of contested places.