Democrats took control of the House this year with the largest midterms margin of victory in history, surpassing the previous record of 8.7 million votes in 1974, according to NBC News election data. By the numbers: Democratic House candidates currently have an 8,805,130 vote lead over Republicans, gaining 53.1% of the more than 111 million votes cast nationwide compared to the GOP's 45.2%, according to the data. The House flipped 41 seats during the 2018 election cycle, and could flip another if California Democratic candidate T.J. Cox, who has overtaken Republican incumbent David Valadao, ultimately wins the state's 21st district. https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-...gin-a56a1049-8823-4667-8d81-2c67ef3f36f4.html
Margin of victory in popular vote for mid-term elections is meaningless. How many seats did the Democrats flip compared to the average number of seats flipped in most mid-term elections. Did they over or under perform in flipping seats.
That's the point, without blatant gerrymandering and voter suppression, Dems could have hit 20 seats more.
Have you taken a look at the gerrymandering done by Democrats in blue states. Without this blatant gerrymandering and voter suppression, the Republicans would have picked up 20 more seats. The bottom line is that the pick-up of seats in Congress by Democrats in the mid-term election was barely average on a historical basis.
States like California has non-partisan redistricting, if Dems wanted to gerrymander, they could have wiped out Republicans even earlier. The bottom line is that Dems have always been winning the votes, be it Presidential or House races, Republicans win on technicality after they have tried everything unethical. Trump is the most unethical pathological liar leading your party, that didn't happen by accident. Can you tell me which Blue state has NC or Texas like gerrymandering? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-maps/illinois/
Eat count gains in the the mid-term election s is the only meaningful metric to measure performance of the minority party in the election. In 2018 the Democrats barely met the historical average for seat gains in the House and lost seats in the Senate. An underwhelming performance.
The votes required to win individual seats constantly changes.Individual votes in the mid-term election is the only meaningful metric to measure performance of the minority party in the election. In 2018 Democrats took control of the House with the largest midterms margin of victory in history, surpassing the previous record of 8.7 million votes in 1974,
Popular vote is pretty meaningless as a margin of victory -- when the number of people voting keeps increasing in each election as the population grows. While you are at it why don't your compare the 2018 popular vote to the 1818 popular vote and draw wild conclusions based on that.