Democrats lead popular vote in House by largest margin in history

[1bad65]

Fyi, no SC seats were "stolen".

Those seats dont belong to anyone.

They are to be filled when a nominee is approved by the Senate.

The Senate did not approve one judge that Obama nominated.

That's not "stealing" anything.

That's how it works according to the Constitution.

The Founders weren't superfans, thankfully.

[Theodore]

You'd think political superfans could keep up with the score a little better.

Whatever, I'm enjoying Thanksgiving right now. Even the usual partisans from both sides aren't posting articles to rile people up, because it's not the time for that. The OP of this thread sure leads a sad life.

Anyways, Vlad put the smackdown in terms of historical perspective when he brought up the '94 and 2010 midterms. Now that was a slaughter.

[Vlad_]

Florida by 1 and Georgia by less than 2, even with the open voter suppression nonsense. Republicans largely washed out of the West/Southwest, the Upper Midwest, and largely out of the Northeast. An engaging candidate that even had Texas on the verge of maybe becoming purple (with the right candidate).

And, as has been the case with basically every election cycle, the voting populace continues to get younger, less white, and less male.

With the 2020 Census draw coming during a presidential cycle (with a clear and concerted effort to capture state legislatures, and the bulk of the focus on getting independently/non-partisan legislative lines), the jig is almost up.

Mitch McConnell doing what he did to steal two seats on the Supreme Court is unfortunate (and Ruth Bader Ginsburg having her accident doesn't ease the mind), but the stage is set now.

A 5-4 Roberts Court (with the Chief Justice as the swing vote, for whatever that's worth) for now, and Trump's path to 270 EC votes has now collapsed with the suburbs abandoning him (as long as Democrats don't **** it up).

RBG is likely next, with Clarence Thomas and Stephen Bryer after her.

And every replacement from here on in, whether they come from the 2020 or 2022 cycles, will be filled with 50 votes.

The world will suffer through this Trump nonsense, but there's light at the end of the tunnel.

Light at the end of the tunnel?

How exactly are you or ones around you suffering under Trump?

[GrandmasterWang]

Democrats lead popular vote in House by largest margin in history

Republicans trail by record 8.9m votes with only one seat undecided

• Chris Baynes
• 1 hour ago
• 1 comment

Democrats are set to pull off the largest midterm elections victory in history, according to a breakdown of the popular vote in races for the House of Representatives.
The party leads the Republicans by more than 8.9 million votes across the US, raw data compiled by the Cook Political Report, an independent, non-partisan political analysis website.


Previously, the largest margin of victory was 8.7 million, which came in the 1974 midterm elections after the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Only one House result remains undeclared. Democrats trail by fewer than 500 votes in California's 23rd congressional district, where there are 15,000 votes left to be counted.
It means the party is on the brink of flipping 40 seats in the House, reaffirming the emerging assessment that this month’s midterms amounted to a ”blue wave”.
Utah’s Mia Love became the latest Republican incumbent to fall as Ben McAdams, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake County, defeated her by fewer than 700 votes in a knife-edge race for the state's fourth congressional district.
She had been billed as one her party's stars when she became its first black congresswoman in 2014.

As of Thursday, Democratic candidates had polled 59,351,147 votes in House seats across the country in the 2018 midterms, compared to Republicans’ 50,438,143, according to the Cook Political Report.
Democrats are on course for more than 60.5 million ballots in total, the closest an opposition party has come in midterm elections to matching the president’s popular vote two years earlier.

Turnout across the country the highest since 1914, with Mr Trump’s divisive presidency and rancorous debates over immigration, healthcare and taxes thought to have driven voters to the ballot box.

At least 49.2 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots, the United States Elections Project estimates, compared to 36.4 per cent in 2014.


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8646116.html

This is fascinating, so there really was a blue wave. I knew Republican party would keep the senate due to them hardly having any seats up for grabs. I should have put more $ on that bet, only won a couple hundred.

That said the article deals with raw numbers, it doesn't adjust for population growth from what you posted. The 8.7 million in 1974 would no doubt represent a bigger proportion than 8.9 million today.

Given how the jobs and economy are doing you have to wonder just how many voters Trump pushed towards the Democrats by saying and doing stupid stuff.

[BoxingTech718]

Due to gerrymandering though it’s hard for the actual will of the majority to get heard.
Redrawing districts is pretty much the only way Republicans still get elected in many areas

[1bad65]

Due to gerrymandering though it’s hard for the actual will of the majority to get heard.
Redrawing districts is pretty much the only way Republicans still get elected in many areas

False.

Before the 2010 redistricting, the Republicans were already winning huge wave elections, the biggest being in 2010 (before the redistricting) and 1994.

Why would they have to redistrict to "still get elected", when they were already winning wave-level elections??

[denium]

President Numbnuts going down in flames and way before 2020.

2020 will be the icing on the cake.

Trumpanzees have never done well with facts.

Why bother.

Trump will win re-election with ease. Democrats have nobody who can challenge him, and they'll destroy themselves in the primaries with Trump live tweeting during the debates.

Beta O'Rouke appears to be their best bet, a convicted burglar and drunk driver!

Who else? Joe Biden who likes sniffing little childrens hair? Elizabeth Warren, the fake Indian?

The only hope Democrats have of defeating Trump at the ballot box is if the economy completely collapses. An event that libtards are praying for. Scumbags.

[loui_ludwig]

Seriously, wjy would any want to vote for demoncrats. They want to raise/add taxes, limit your 2nd amendment rights, add new genders, abolish ICE, let everybody in the US, and give a lot of freebies(paid for tax payers).
And that congress woman who went to Guatemala to see the caravan. How about looking after the people of your district.

[Vlad_]

Whatever, I'm enjoying Thanksgiving right now. Even the usual partisans from both sides aren't posting articles to rile people up, because it's not the time for that. The OP of this thread sure leads a sad life.

Anyways, Vlad put the smackdown in terms of historical perspective when he brought up the '94 and 2010 midterms. Now that was a slaughter.