Anybody have a link to total votes cast (Dem vs. Repub) in the midterms?

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That is, the combined total for all races, House and Senate combined.

One of my friends, a semi-freeper, claims that the total margin was 50,000 votes! Of course that's an absurdity--and I'd like to show him the real numbers.

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1. You can smash his assholery with this fact: Hillary alone, by herself,

won by just under 1.5 million votes (1477965 votes over the repuke fuck).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_United_States_Senate_election,_2006#Election_results

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2. Well, okay, I misread your post -

I don't have a link to what you are asking.

But still, it's fucking hilarious that Hillary won by such a huge margin. That's gotta hurt the freepers!

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4. yeah, just by glancing at a few races it's clear that the margin is...

several million. My friend was no doubt fed that assholery by some right-wing liar website.

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3. Somerby at the Daily Howler

quoted somebody saying 40.2 million Democrats and 34.6 for Republicans. That is in House races, which covers all 50 states. Senate races may change things if Hatch and Clinton won in landslides, but it also double counts voters in red states.