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Blue Wave Recap: Democrats Set Record for House Popular Vote in Midterms
Potentially the last in our eight part Blue Wave Recap Series, celebrating a tremendous wave that the national media has not and will not fully convey. In this post we drive home the simple fact that this was the BIGGEST WIN IN THE HISTORY OF MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
Democrats won the House with the largest margin of victory in a midterms election for either party...
While votes are still being tallied, Democratic House candidates currently hold an 8,805,130 vote lead over Republicans as of Monday morning. The Democrats' national margin of victory in House contests smashes the previous midterms record of 8.7 million votes in 1974, won just months after Nixon resigned from office in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal.
BLUE WAVE.
Of the more than 111 million votes cast in House races nationwide, Democrats took 53.1 percent — retaking control of the House of Representatives by flipping nearly 40 seats — while Republicans received 45.2 percent of the vote.
When all the ballots are tallied, Democrats will have something close to a 9 million vote lead in the national House popular vote. Democrats will win the vote by close to 8 percentage points.
That’s a huge win. In the Republican wave elections of 2010 and 1994, the GOP won the national House vote by about 6.6 points and 7 points respectively
BLUE WAVE.