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What counts is how many votes swing in a given election.

No what counts is how many seats you have.

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Well, from a practical point of view if you're able to retain a majority, okay that's well and good, but when you say "They had their second-best election since 1948," that makes readers think that there was some kind of landslide or massive shift to the Republicans, which wasn't the case. They actually lost seats after the impeachment (and during the build-up to impeachment).

This is something of a glass half-empty glass half-full argument. Voters didn't repudiate Republicans in a major way after impeachment, but they didn't reward them after impeachment in a major way either (which is something that talk of the GOP's best election in 50 years implies). But I suppose I'm not going to convince you.