Damn, the Dems did lose lotsa House seats.......still Majority, but shoot....

[a kennedy]

[Squinch]

1. Stop. Just enjoy this day.

[a kennedy]

5. Ok, ok, sorry.

[msongs]

2. local and state on the whole is not looking good, some exceptions of course nt

[Demovictory9]

15. Dems are at disadvantage from gop controlled redistricting of 2010

And distribution of dems in populous cities and states

[wryter2000]

3. To be expected

After a huge wave as we had in 2018, there's always a swing back. We still have the majority. Now, we need the majority in the Senate.

[AlexSFCA]

4. Enjoy the day and focus on Jan.,5 - Battle for the senate. I already started donating to the runoffs

[a kennedy]

9. Yup, you're right, I sent a donation, one of many, to the Georgia races

[Fresh_Start]

6. yes but california and other states have lots of ballots outstanding

the loss won't be quite as bad when the votes are counted

[a kennedy]

7. Thanks.

[Baltimike]

8. where there were paper ballots, the vote and polls matched. When there were

touch screen ballots, the kGOPb won by crazy margins, in spite of polling.

Paper ballots vs vapor ballots. They've been doing it for twenty years, and will continue as long as we don;t insist on paper ballot back ups.

[kimbutgar]

14. I wonder about if votes were manipulated for Susan Collins.

How do they conduct voting in Maine?

[Baltimike]

21. and south carolina. I think shit's hinky there too

[MacKasey]

10. The fight for 2022 starts tomorrow!

Enjoy today

[In It to Win It]

12. ABSOLUTELY! ONWARD TO 2022! (and 2021 for Georgia)

[In It to Win It]

11. The last number I got was 7 seats but those were tough seats to begin with

As far as I know, those were seats that we flipped in 2018, those “moderate” gerrymandered districts.

[DeminPennswoods]

18. In PA, the 18 person delegation stayed the same

even split, 9D, 9R although centrist Dem Conor Lamb had a close call.

[W_HAMILTON]

13. Oh bullshit.

Currently, Democrats have flipped three seats, while Republicans have flipped eight so far; refer to: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-house.html

[a kennedy]

16. Got ya,

[dsc]

23. while numerically that is true

we didn't really flip 3 seats, the two NC seats were radically redrawn in our favor and were baked in, we really only flipped one seat.

[W_HAMILTON]

25. Wrong.

They were redrawn to be fairer after being found to be radically (and racially, I believe) drawn AGAINST us.

And if not for radically drawn districts, Republicans would have suffered an even more humiliating defeat.

[dsc]

26. I am not characterizing the redrawings as un fair

but they certainly were very much in our favor. Had that not happened we would not have picked up any seats here. We lost ground in the general assembly, lost ground in our consul of state races, and lost both the presidential EV and the senate seat (in all likelihood they haven't been called yet). We also lost at least 2 supreme court seats, 5 appellate court seats.

[AleksS]

17. Every seat in the house was up for re-election and

We won a majority of them.

And considering that each CA rep has to represent 20x the number of people as a WY rep,

And considering the extreme gerrymandering in states like WI, MI, OH, and PA where Democrats can win 2/3 of the votes for the house in the state but only come out with 1/4 the representatives,

Then keeping a majority was a big effing deal.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. PA is no longer gerrymandered thanks to the PA supreme court

throwing out the old map in 2018 and implementing its own map after the GOP legislature refused to work with Gov Wolf to produce its own new map. Our delegation went from 13R, 5D to 9R, 9D.

[AleksS]

20. Nice! What a difference the districting makes.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Yes,

same thing happened in NC with their new map.

[dsc]

24. yeah that is why we have 3 flips, 2 are those NC seats