Republicans Can’t Declare Mandate With More Democrat House Votes
Democrats failed to regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives even though they won 1 million more votes than Republicans. The number of states backing Senate and presidential candidates of the same party grew to the largest in at least 60 years. And President Barack Obama made history by losing every county in West Virginia.
These are among the findings in data compiled by Bloomberg on the 2012 election results, which call attention to an electorate that is increasingly polarized and two major parties that are as ideologically distinct as ever.
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Democrats led Republicans by 56 million to 55 million votes nationally, according to unofficial tallies from the Associated Press. It’s the first time since 1996 that one party won more House seats while winning fewer votes, according to data compiled by the House Clerk’s office. The outcome is the product in part of Republican-dominated redrawing of House seat boundaries after the 2010 census and of population shifts.
In North Carolina, Republican candidates garnered a total of 2.14 million votes in the 13 districts, winning nine. Democrats gained a total of 2.22 million votes, winning three districts and leading in a fourth.
Democratic Advantage
In Pennsylvania, Republicans won 13 of the 18 districts even as they lost the aggregate vote by 2.7 million to 2.6 million
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AFAIK, nothing can be done until the next census in 2020. This is why Nordquist says they had the next twenty years mapped out. Will Democratic voters stay the course or stay home in 2014?
While Grover was unable to install his designated Robosigner-in-Chief, the GOP have already shown this week, despite the majority opposing them, they have no intention of giving up on their hateful policy to suppress voters and women.
They will continue fight their war of obstruction and attrition, with their media inflaming their base and demoralizing Democratic voters by disinformation about what the Democrats and Obama are working to do to get this country back on track.
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Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights, civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance reform, the environment and tax fairness. No political party could remain so consistently wrong by accident.
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