Democrats rushing to defeat in the House of Representative

The Democrats seem destined to squander their overwhelming control of the House of Representatives as they stumble from disaster to disaster—alienating those who had voted for them in record numbers just two years ago.

By David Singer —— Bio and Archives--September 4, 2020


In the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House—winning 235 seats to the Republicans 199. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. The 41-seat gain was the Democrats’ largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections, when they picked up 49 seats. The Democrats won the popular vote by a margin of 8.6% over the Republicans—60,572,245 to 50,861,970—the largest margin on record for a party that previously held a minority in the House. Turnout was the highest for a midterm election in more than a century, with 50.3% of the electorate casting ballots........To Read More....