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2016 Postmortem

SFnomad

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3. Democrats did not get more votes in the House races in 2016

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 12:52 AM

Jan 2017

The only time that Democrats have gotten more votes, but stayed in the minority was 2012. The other years that the Republicans won the majority, they also had the most votes in House races. Also, House districts in individual states are supposed to have about equal population ... at least that's what supposed to happen during redistricting, which happens every 10 years, the year after the census. Because of changes in population within districts during that 10 year period, the districts do get out of balance.

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Why, WHY, did the Dems never run against the Do-nothing Republican Congress? [View all] fiorello Jan 2017 OP

because congressional races need to be seen within those individual districts and most congress JI7 Jan 2017 #1

Democrats did not get more votes in the House races in 2016 SFnomad Jan 2017 #3

They complain it costs money! elleng Jan 2017 #2

Exactly... Docreed2003 Jan 2017 #4

YES!!! elleng Jan 2017 #5

I'm In Total Agreement With You And I Posted This Back On Nov 27th..... global1 Jan 2017 #6

What global1 said hedda_foil Jan 2017 #7