• Yendor@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Shrinking? They increased their seats in the house last election, and now control >50%.

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      1 year ago

      They won the overall popular vote for the House by 2.8% in a midterm election with a somewhat unpopular President from the opposite party plus economic turmoil. The standard assumption would be that they’d blow it out. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats won the popular vote for the House by almost 10% under somewhat similar circumstances.