Posted on 11/14/2022 4:17:56 PM PST by Trump20162020
Republicans appear primed to win the narrowest of House majorities — around 220-215 or 219-216 — despite winning a majority of the votes nationwide and edging Democrats by around four percentage points.
If they do ultimately win by around four points, it would mean Republicans improved on their margin from the 2020 election by around seven points, but they were only able to add about 2 percent of seats, as the Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman notes.
This has understandably led to some griping and head-scratching among Republicans who wonder how they’re struggling to win the House despite that swing. But it’s worth putting in context.
The first thing to note is that we have incomplete results. The Cook Political Report’s national popular vote tracker currently shows Republicans winning 51.7 percent of House votes to the Democrats’ 46.8 percent — a gap of about five points.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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.
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
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.
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.
It hasn’t translated because Democrats count the votes.
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.
Voter fraud pure and simple.
” ... the North Carolina Supreme Court is going from a 4-3 Democrat majority to a 5-2 GOP majority.”
Excellent.
“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.”
Weren’t Democrats complaining a few years back that they got more votes and the Republicans gerrymandered them out of their reward?
Including the pronoun "they."
-PJ
They cheat like dogs, as DJT says.
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.
We know exactly why.
Liberal Suburban Whites, especially women may have voted for Kemp. But they refused to vote for Walker.
Fraud cover up in full swing.
I know the answer — fraud and ballot harvesting.
Exactly, not a head scratcher to me.
Bump
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.
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