Historically, between 1916 & 2016, the *average* Senate candidate of a losing party in a presidential election ran three points ahead of the national ticket. The average Democratic Senate candidate in 1956 ran 14.6 points ahead of Adlai Stevenson.
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The average Democratic Senate candidate in 1980 ran 9.3 points ahead of Jimmy Carter in the 2-party vote, and they still lost 12 Senate seats.
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GOP is losing the popular vote by 5m+ House is supposed to be our most representative body. It's just been totally distorted by state legislatures and GOP Supreme Court judges
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