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9. Not true

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 09:43 PM

Mar 2018

In some elections Democrats have won the popular vote and have only got a minority of seats. But not in 2016. Republicans got 49.1% of the popular vote and Democrats 48%. (63,173,815 to 61,776,554).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2016

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