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Why the GOP’s popular-vote edge hasn’t translated to more House seats
The Washington Post ^ | November 14, 2022 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 11/14/2022 4:17:56 PM PST by Trump20162020

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To: Trump20162020

there is no popular vote for the house, they are single races... but in terms of the premise, the red states got reder, blue got bluer. That’s my assessment.


21 posted on 11/14/2022 4:55:18 PM PST by goodolemr
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To: Trump20162020

no good message - only dems suck
Rick Scott threatened loss of SS that old people have paid into their whole life
Graham talked fed abortion law
no ground game, as in GOTV, mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting(where legal)
state legislators allowed covid election rule changes by parties other than them
Top Rinos worked against the USA
A few sucky candidates and the good ones got no help

I’m sure there’s more


22 posted on 11/14/2022 4:57:35 PM PST by Pollard (Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
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To: bigdaddy45

Aside from people stating the fact that the popular vote means nothing in a representative republic.

Now idiot repubs want to brag about it. “democracy” The MOB RULES.


23 posted on 11/14/2022 5:00:47 PM PST by Pollard (Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

In WA voters can change their voting district by a mail request. Seattle Dems DO NOT NEED to win by 30%, they can vote in districts that are Red but small population. Just a few thousand, and you win the seats.


24 posted on 11/14/2022 5:14:09 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: Trump20162020

It hasn’t translated because Democrats count the votes.


25 posted on 11/14/2022 5:16:36 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe l|l)
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To: TomGuy

Nown now...we can’t have common sense intruding into this discussion...”individual races have to be examined.”. The knee jerk reaction that everything is fraud is wearing thin. Some candidates just plain lost because the voters didn’t like them or their message...that’s politics.

A couple of candidates I supported lost. And folks frankly said they weren’t happy with their positions or the positions the party they were affiliated with.


26 posted on 11/14/2022 5:20:11 PM PST by hopefullamerican
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To: Trump20162020

Voter fraud pure and simple.


27 posted on 11/14/2022 5:24:23 PM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Trump20162020

” ... the North Carolina Supreme Court is going from a 4-3 Democrat majority to a 5-2 GOP majority.”

Excellent.


28 posted on 11/14/2022 5:35:08 PM PST by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: TomGuy

“Before broadly painting the races the Republican lost as being stolen, those individual races have to be examined.”

I made the same point, specifically about the GA election outcomes, to no avail here. Kemp received 200,000 more votes than Walker did, and Abrams received 130,000 fewer votes than Warnock did. There were about 150,000 fewer ballots cast in the Senate race than in the race for governor. So, some Kemp voters didn’t vote in the Senate election and some Kemp voters voted for Warnock or “others.”


29 posted on 11/14/2022 5:43:37 PM PST by riverdawg (Wells Fargo is my bank and I have no complaints.)
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To: Trump20162020

Weren’t Democrats complaining a few years back that they got more votes and the Republicans gerrymandered them out of their reward?


30 posted on 11/14/2022 5:50:39 PM PST by x
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To: Trump20162020
Because "they" lie about everything.

Including the pronoun "they."

-PJ

31 posted on 11/14/2022 5:52:37 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

They cheat like dogs, as DJT says.


32 posted on 11/14/2022 6:06:22 PM PST by Greg123456
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To: Trump20162020

Republicans should have picked up at least 40 house seats with a solid majority, but they screwed up and they did nothing to reform the Voting Integrity.


33 posted on 11/14/2022 6:08:01 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Trump20162020

We know exactly why.


34 posted on 11/14/2022 6:13:31 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: riverdawg

Liberal Suburban Whites, especially women may have voted for Kemp. But they refused to vote for Walker.


35 posted on 11/14/2022 6:14:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Trump20162020

Fraud cover up in full swing.


36 posted on 11/14/2022 6:26:36 PM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: Trump20162020

I know the answer — fraud and ballot harvesting.


37 posted on 11/14/2022 6:53:15 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Exactly, not a head scratcher to me.


38 posted on 11/14/2022 7:05:20 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: Trump20162020

Bump


39 posted on 11/15/2022 11:04:00 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Trump20162020

Correlate this with the census overcounts that kept states like New York, Rhode Island and Minnesota from losing seats to states like Florida and Texas. Three seats that might have been likely to go Republican may have stayed in Democrat hands because of incompetence or corruption in the census.


40 posted on 11/16/2022 9:21:53 AM PST by x
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