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We had two pick-ups in the House: Graham in Florida, and Ashford in Nebraska
Graham ran an ad saying "I am not Barack Obama or Nancy Pelosi". Ashford was a Republican until 2005 or so, and will now be the first Democrat to represent NE-2 in 20 years. Both are blue dogs. The existing blue dog caucus had two members lose re-election bids, so the net is a wash (and for that matter there are still two elections in recount right now), but these are the only two Democrats who got us new ground this cycle.
EDIT three losses, not two, so the Blue Dog Caucus had a net loss of one. For some reason I keep getting weird numbers on Gallego, but apparently he definitely lost.