Red wave after all? GOP winning popular vote by wide margin despite incongruous results

[mystery-ak]

Red wave after all? GOP winning popular vote by wide margin despite incongruous results

Millions more Americans voted for Republicans than Democrats in House races. So why didn't the GOP win more seats?


By Aaron Kliegman

Updated: November 10, 2022 - 11:07pm

The country may have experienced a red wave after all. It just didn't translate into the electoral outcomes that have historically accompanied major political shifts — and after the initial wave of instant narratives extemporized by pundits on election night, close observers are now just beginning to dig for the reasons underlying the model-shattering disconnect.

Republicans are currently winning the national popular vote for the House in Tuesday's midterm elections by a large margin, according to the latest data from the Cook Political Report.

Specifically, GOP candidates have so far received 50,672,592 votes, or 52.3% of the total ballots cast as of this writing. Democrat candidates, by comparison, have so far received 44,802,597 votes, or 46.2% of the total.

These figures come from Cook's 2022 National House Vote Tracker, which is being updated as states continue counting ballots.

This support for the GOP appears to fit with what pre-election polling data had suggested heading into Election Day. Several Republican candidates nationwide, including those running for the Senate and governors' mansions, had been rising in the polls in the last couple months, indicating positive momentum for Republicans.

Polling also found that the economy (particularly inflation) and crime were the top two issues for voters and that voters trusted Republicans more than Democrats to handle each issue.

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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Something I was considering... maybe now it's red voters who are concentrating in a few states?

[Hoodat]

You could conceivably have an election where the Democrat wins each Congressional election by exactly one vote.  Nationwide, the Democrat win the popular vote by a total of 80,000,000 to 79,999,565.  And with that 0.000272% majority and complete control of Congress, the Democrats would not hesitate impose full scale fascism on the 49.999728%.

[Bigun]

Something I was considering... maybe now it's red voters who are concentrating in a few states?

Red states are getting redder blue states bluer.  I'll leave it to you to decide where that leads @Weird Tolkienish Figure

[Hoodat]

Red states are getting redder blue states bluer.  I'll leave it to you to decide where that leads @Weird Tolkienish Figure

I've seen this movie before.

[Free Vulcan]

Red states are getting redder blue states bluer.  I'll leave it to you to decide where that leads @Weird Tolkienish Figure

I continue to drift to that conclusion and nothing has stopped me so far.

[Wingnut]

I've seen this movie before.

This time we will have enough bullets.

[andy58-in-nh]

This time we will have enough bullets.

We might need 'em, because I think we are going to lose both the House and the Senate, and things are going to get ugly.

[cato potatoe]

They will count the ballot harvests until December in California.  I'll check back then.

[Fishrrman]

Hoodat hollers:
"I've seen this movie before." (and posts a pic)

It's going to be different this coming time.
The pic above will be that of the troops of the DC government -- the dem-communists.

The pic of the "Heartland army" will be bearing a DIFFERENT flag.
And that's as it should be.