Which Election Year Was More Awesome?

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

For me, 1994.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

For me, 1994.

You were born 8 years after 1994.

[Ljube]

I was born 20 years before 1994.
So, 1994. No competition.

[Del Tachi]

2014 because it was more unexpected

[Consciously Unconscious]

2014 because it was more unexpected

Plus I was born after 1994, so I can't remember it. 

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

For me, 1994.

You were born 8 years after 1994.

Says the young racist GOPer.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Thinking about 1994 makes me wish I'd made like Kurt Cobain before the election this year.

[jd1433]

2014 because it was more unexpected

1994 was even more unexpected. GOP taking the house was roughly like the odds of GOP taking the senate in 2010 except the natural consensus at the time was that even if the data showed a slightly higher chance of the GOP taking the house it was so unbelievable to pundits at the time that they refused to endorse such possibilities.

Still though the experts in the Dem side were worried and the GOP expanded the map. The Dem stalwarts started sucking up resources in the final weeks similar 2010 to be sure they survived and left their weaker members dangling naked in the wind.


Then at the end, the bottom fell out like it did yesterday and people that the pundits never thought would be hanging on for dear life all of sudden were.


94 will still go down as probably the single best ran campaign by an entire party in the post WWII era (although last night was pretty sweet).

[Antonio the Sixth]

You mean the least dreadfully atrocious? I guess 1994, since at least there was some basic logic to its outcome (incumbent with a null record, economy doing poorly, same party in power for the past 40 years). 2014 is striking for its sheer absurdity.

[Wisconsin+17]

2014 is a bigger senate landslide.

I'm going to go with 1980 over both. Morning in America indeed.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

For me, 1994.

You were born 8 years after 1994.

Says the young racist GOPer.

brb getting ice

[jd1433]

2014 is a bigger senate landslide.

I'm going to go with 1980 over both. Morning in America indeed.

House is always more important because it will switch hands less.

It's like having the perfect red zone defense for the entire season. Even if your offense sucks (senate, WH) the fact that the other team never gets to score for potentially decades is pretty awesome (why Democrats were really spoiled politically from basically FDR until 1994).

^^FYI, this may be my first football analogy I have ever used... so I'm not "one of those people" (at least last I checked).

[IceSpear]

I actually thought Bandit made this thread and was very, very confused.

[Wisconsin+17]

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Dat house majority tho. It's not like we gave up the House to get the Senate.

[jd1433]

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Dat house majority tho. It's not like we gave up the House to get the Senate.

I guess I just have more nostalgia for the race that ended the GOP's almost endless losing streak with the house than the one that added a several House seats to the majority and took the Senate.


I said it in 2010 that the state chambers had basically made the House impossible for the Dems in this decade, but these kinds of margins also make it pretty hard for them to take it back all that quickly in the 2020s even with favorable redistricting winds. It's not impractical at all to say that overwhelming odds are the Dems wont take back the house before 2026 (wave elections be included).

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

2014 (I was only 3 in 1994)

[Eraserhead]

Junk election years!