They won most races by a few thousands votes. Bush won florida in 2000 by less than 1000
Today, Heather Wilson, Tiberi, Pryce, and Schmidt, all republican incumbents all won by less than a few thousand and we are lucky we got those.
Can you try dealing with the future instead of clinging to the past? We were going to lose seats. 2nd Mid Term of the Party of the President almost always lose. What we lost by was SO small a margin it indicates we are STILL a 50-50 nation. That is the point.