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GreatGazoo

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6. and 1994?
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:51 PM
Apr 2016

the biggest disaster in Democratic party history. Was that the fault of Millennials too?

Forty years of Democratic dominance in the U.S. Congress came to a stunning end on November 8, when the Republican Party rode a tidal wave of anti-incumbent sentiment to victory in the midterm elections. The Republicans took control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1954 as voters delivered a strong rejection of Pres. Bill Clinton and his policies. The Republicans picked up a net gain of 53 seats in the House of Representatives and 7 in the Senate. The last time such carnage had been seen in Congress was in 1958, when Republicans lost 48 House and 13 Senate seats. Moreover, the Republicans won a majority of congressional seats from the South for the first time since the Civil War.


http://www.britannica.com/topic/1994-midterm-Elections-616578

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