Dems won the WH, but pubs won the house

The Democrats actually gained in the senate. Republicans maintained the house through gerrymandering. I wouldn't be surprised if the Democrats lead in the actually popular vote for the house of representatives.
 
New law: when a party wins the house of representatives without winning the popular vote, members of the party that didn't win the popular vote are automatically expelled until they no longer have the majority.
 
New law: all Republicans permanently stripped of voting privileges. There is more than enough ideological diversity in the Democratic party for the whole country.
 
Here are the results for the House races in Pennsylvania, which Obama won by 5%:

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The Republicans won 8 of the 13 races through gerrymandering. This is why Republicans won the House.
 
dung has sour grapes

you can't prove it was gerrymandering...just because someone votes for obama, doesn't mean they vote dem for congress

:pke:
 
so?

according to liberals, because the gop has had the house since 2010....they have been able to "obstruct" obama on everything

sour grapes?
 
cannabis said:
dung has sour grapes

you can't prove it was gerrymandering...just because someone votes for obama, doesn't mean they vote dem for congress

:pke:
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We will have to wait a while until someone tabulates the total amount of votes Democrats and Republicans received. If the Democrats won more, then it's pretty clear evidence that the loss was due to gerrymandering.
 
The only reason the Democrats didn't outright lose seats was because a fair districting law was passed in Florida, and the Illinois Democrats, with their Chicago style politics, turned a gerrymandered Republican map into a gerrymandered Democratic map, netting them 4 seats, which cancelled out a few of the more outrageous Republican gerrymanders elsewhere.
 
Dungheap said:
Uh, yeah, you'll have to show me your math. Looks to me like the Democrats actually received more votes overall or its about tied. Nothing close to substantiating a 13-5 split in favor of Republicans.
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you didn't click the link did you?

STATUS

CANDIDATES
Keith Rothfus
Mark Critz
(Incumbent)
VOTES
172,020
160,636
VOTES %
52%
48%
Est. 100% in
 
You are right, the Republicans lead by 24,018 votes out of 5,445,672, about 0.5%:

Republicans
39,128
31,466
160,238
179,340
172,042
183,647
201,178
199,283
165,858
176,267
163,733
172,020
91,887
91,887
74,888
165,629
154,337
102,754
209,263
-------
2,734,845


Democrats
222,408
299,567
120,144
103,387
101,624
138,688
137,231
152,515
103,298
91,351
116,315
160,636
203,072
248,905
126,661
109,026
157,629
118,370
--------
2,710,827


Clearly, an accurate and representative district map would represent a 1/200 difference in the popular vote by giving one party 3/5 of the seats and the other 2/5. If you actually looked at the election results, you'd see that all of the Democrats tend to have won with massive supermajorities like 90% or so, while the Republicans tend to get a result much more even. This isn't an accident. They packed the Democrats into districts where their votes would be wasted on ridiculous supermajorities. And Pennsylvania is far from the worst map that was drawn.
 
Whoops, there are 19 numbers in the Republican column and 18 in the Democratic won. Looks like the Republicans didn't actually lead after all.
 
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