28 seats? Is that the final tally on houses won?

[Baitball Blogger]

Much lower than the 40 projected. We obviously lost seats.

[dem4decades]

1. Would have been more but gerrymandering still has it's ugly grip on the country.

[Jersey Devil]

2. 34 if you count the seats where Dems are ahead but not yet called

according to the NY Times site:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-house-elections.html

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Thank you.

So we are likely to win nine more, putting us at the 35 number.

More likely to investigate with those numbers.

[Fresh_Start]

3. its not the final tally....nt

nt

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

4. There's a close house race in Maine still - first federal election ranked choice race

Probably won't know the results for days.

[NorCen_CT]

5. NBC has the Dems at 230 seats (+/- 8)

[uponit7771]

7. Link and quote to 40 projected? thx in advance

[Amishman]

12. Nate Silver's 538 standard model median projection

Linking from my phone is a pain but you can find it easy enough

[uponit7771]

13. That was a snapshot projection and not the day of ... couldn't be

[Amishman]

14. Found it. 39 seat gain average projection in his final prediction

Which was last updated 11/6 at 11am.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-forecast/house/

[FM123]

8. Looking at the chart, I believe there were only two seats the repubs flipped : MN 8 and PA 14

What really thrilled me were the unexpected red seats we took away from them that they never saw coming: OK 5, NY 11, SC 1

I am so glad we took the House, because here in Florida we are sickened that we lost the chance to have a really amazing governor!

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Look, I'm from Florida and I really shouldn't be so surprised about losing.

Do you know how hard it is to network with other progressives in this state? Conservatives do not have the same problem. They have very established subcultures to vet people and find their own tribes. What do we have? Nothing. There are three Liberal leaders in Central Florida, that called themselves Liberal. Two are attorneys, and if either of them tried to bring us together I wouldn't be a part of it because I don't trust either of them. And the third was a crooked person who knew how to use the backwater networks through the business organizations.

Gillum was a light in the darkness. I hope he tries to bring minorities in this state together to help us organize for 2020.

[Roland99]

16. +1

[BumRushDaShow]

15. PA-14 wasn't really a net "flip"

When the congressional districts were redrawn here, the seat that Conor Lamb ran for and won (the old PA-18) was redrawn so he ran for the new PA-17 instead (which included some of what was the old PA-12). The old PA-14 was Allegheny County (including Pittsburgh).

So the new PA-14 is actually in the area of the old PA-18, which had been in GOP territory -

OLD MAP (old PA-14 is now the new PA-18) -



NEW MAP (old PA-18 is now new PA-14) -



So it is disingenuous for this to be considered a "flip" (which the NYT is doing) when the overall "flip" happened in the March special election and the (D) pickup at that time carried over into the general election (albeit under a newly re-numbered district).

[Blue_Tires]

10. We took the house and that's what matters

keep your eye on the ball here....

[Codeine]

11. Who projected 40? nt