Nation, loud and clear: WE'RE VOTING FOR DEMOCRATS TO STOP TRUMP Democrats: Thank you so much for electing us on a platform of civility, unity and bipartisanship
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Replying to @WillOremus
How'd you come to this conclusion from tonight's results?
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Replying to @antoniogm
Will Oremus Retweeted Sam Wang
you have some other theory for the huge democratic wave, 9+% popular margin, and capturing of numerous longtime GOP seats?https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/1060005151321276416 …
Will Oremus added,
Sam WangVerified account @SamWangPhDThe NYT currently projects a national popular-vote margin of D+9.2%. For comparison, the last five largest margins, considered wave elections: 1994: R+7.1% 2006: D+8.0% 2008: D+10.6% 2010: R+7.2% 2014: R+5.7% By historical standards, it's a popular wave. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-forecast.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @WillOremus
They lost every high-profile, neck-and-neck race. Every single one. What can they claim other than the aggregate House count coming out to about what was predicted?
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Replying to @antoniogm @WillOremus
I think you’re forgetting that those “high profile” races were so much in the news because they were such longshots. Taking over the house is not less important because it was expected.
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Replying to @EmilyDreyfuss @antoniogm
also, there's a reason they were predicted to take back the house. and it wasn't because of some great national craving for bipartisan cooperation with the trump admin
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Replying to @WillOremus @EmilyDreyfuss
Depends what you call a longshot. Every Texas House candidate on the Dem 'flip' list lost. Seems like Dems are walking back what 'flip' means now. Was it a race or wasn't it?
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Re: House, the opposition party always gets a bump in the mid-terms. This was all safely within the expected. To me at least, that much was baseline.
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Replying to @antoniogm @EmilyDreyfuss
let's revisit this convo once we have the turnout figures
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We have them: the Dems depended on turnout to win. If you're counting turnout when you've lost the vote, it's like counting rushing yards vs. points in football. Nice, but who cares? Or like obsessing over the popular vote in a presidential election...
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