[mountn man]

I came across this from CNN last night.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/10/politics/house-retirement-tracker/index.html

It shows how many people in the House Of Reps, retired, quit, or moved on to other jobs.

24 Reps and 9 Dems retired.
7 Reps and 2 Dems resigned.
13 Reps and 9 Dems ran for another office.

That’s 44 Reps and 20 Dems, who were incumbents, who left their seats.

If you subtract the 20 Dems from 44 Reps, that’s leaves 24 more Rep seats that were left open.

Granted, maybe some of these were adequately filled by an alternate and held. But 17 of these seats were vacated since the beginning of this year, when their Dem opponents were already gearing up.

I could spend the time and look up each seat and how it went, but I really don’t feel like putting in the energy.
(At least not right now)

But look at the numbers,
24 more Reps than Dems, left their seats open.
17 Reps announced their leaving since the beginning of the year.

Compare 24 or 17, at face value, to the number of seats the Dems picked up, and this wasn’t any real blue wave, this was a surrender or hand over.

[UnstableGenius]

We (by “we” I mean Gutless Paul Ryan) lost the House, they didn’t win it.

[Alberta's Child]

And keep in mind that there were something like 25 or more GOP House seats in districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. I’d be surprised if any of them stayed in GOP hands after yesterday.

[Nailbiter]

this could also be seen as elites/insiders/globalists - screwing the voters/ constituents that had audacity to elect an outsider to be president

[Uncle Sham]

"this wasn’t any real blue wave, this was a surrender or hand over."

Right you are.