2014 a GOP R+6 election

[zorkpolitics]

With some counting still ongoing, currently the total GOP vote is up by 6.4%, second biggest GOP margin in the last few decades:

GOP total congressional vote: 39,537,567
DEM total congressional vote: 34,695,226

GOP net votes = 4,842,341

For updated data see:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I6S2hvDOqz5wwStCANKu0dLqX68wuEI8H9pyc8W2Cjo/edit#gid=0

[Person Man]

Which one was the first?

[Talleyrand]

Which one was the first?

2010 had a 6.8% margin. 51.7% to 44.9%.

[Miles]

And 1994 was R+ 7.1.

[Person Man]

and yet they picked up like 15 more seats than they did in 1994 and 4 more than 2010...and 9 senate seats.

[Mr.Phips]

and yet they picked up like 15 more seats than they did in 1994 and 4 more than 2010...and 9 senate seats.

Gerrymandering at its finest.

[Mr. Reactionary]

and yet they picked up like 15 more seats than they did in 1994 and 4 more than 2010...and 9 senate seats.

Gerrymandering at its finest.

Pretty sure the Pubs gained 2 seats in Illinois which was subject to a viscous Dem gerrymander after 2010.

[Knives]

ing embarrassing for America, 125 million people voted in 2012.

[politicus]

I also have no real issue with gerrymandering, as it has been a legitimate political tool for two centuries.

That doesn't make it fair or in accordance with basic principles of democracy.

[muon2]

R+ and D+ are not based on the margin, but by how much a party is over 50% (or over a benchmark like the previous two presidential races). That puts 2014 at R+3, not R+6.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

They didn't include write-in votes in these totals.

Why are some of the FL results blank?  I noticed this was the case in the spreadsheet Lief linked to also.

[Person Man]

R+ and D+ are not based on the margin, but by how much a party is over 50% (or over a benchmark like the previous two presidential races). That puts 2014 at R+3, not R+6.

That makes since. That would make 2012 D+1, 2010 R+3, 2006/8 D+3, 2004 R+1... hmm...