Did you realize that the Democrats have won the popular vote in both House and Senate?

[DetlefK]

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Senate popular vote:
Democrats: 40,558,262 (55.4%)
Republicans: 31,490,026 votes (43.0%)

Senate seats: Republicans +3

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Tonight, Dems will take about 33 House seats with a popular vote win of +9.2%. In 2010, Republicans took 63 House seats with a popular vote win of +7.2%. The difference: Gerrymandering Remember this when pundits try to downplay what Dems accomplished tonight.

[LisaL]

1. Yep, the system is rigged against us.

We have to do that much better to actually win.

[mitch96]

10. Somehow get rid of gerrymandering and voter surpression

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

11. storm state governments (with votes)

The way to eliminate gerrymandering, voter disenfranchisement, and vote suppression is to take state governments out of the hands of Republicans. This is why GOTV is so important and will continue to be until we clean up the anti-democracy messes in multiple states.

Everyone who worked to create this blue wave can pat themselves on the back. We're better off today than before, and there are more artificial walls that have been breached.

It's not done, but it's better.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

16. It was not only Gerrymandering. In typically Republican states...

In areas where Democrats live in Red States their are far fewer voting machines. Long lines were reported; and bad weather was a factor in some places, causing people to go home and not vote or stand in the rain.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[handmade34]

3. hmmmm....

so... we just need to be confident that Democratic voters will persist, not get discouraged, keep fighting, stay active in politics (both locally and nationally) and go out and vote in even greater numbers in 2 years... I am not sure I trust the United States citizens to keep up the fight... I will keep fighting, but how many others??

[uponit7771]

4. THIS !!!!

[smirkymonkey]

5. First order of business:

Crackdown on republican gerrymandering and blatant cheating!

[Javaman]

6. Great! now can we get rid of the fucking electoral college? nt

[elocs]

7. That's like the losing team in the World Series claiming they really won

because they scored more total runs in the games played. But that's not how it works in baseball or in totaling all the votes run in every House race.

[Lheurch]

13. Exactly correct

I really do not get why people are celebrating a popular vote win, especially in the Senate where a national popular vote is not a thing, nor could it be. Why are you celebrating winning a game no one was playing? Focus on playing the actual game.

[fishwax]

14. because the game was heavily rigged against us, and the showing

gives us something to build on going forward.

The Senate was always a long shot. But we were competitive in places that we haven't been competitive in a generation. We won importsnt victories last night, and if we can keep building on that momentum we'll win yet more important victories in two years.

[Blue_Tires]

8. There's something VERY wrong with the system right now

[dubyadiprecession]

9. The problem in the senate vote might not..

Be a controllable problem.
Republicans “sqeak by” like Scott did in Florida and Gilibrand of New York won by a blow out.

[DeminPennswoods]

12. These midwestern states

are the last bastions of homogeneous white populations. They literally are voting as if their lives depend on it. That's why you see Republican senators being elected even against the voter's own self-interest. They are fighting a losing battle, though.

[DetlefK]

15. Climate-change will only make this worse in the upcoming decades.

The Midwest is slowly but steadily running out of groundwater, because it's depleted from too much agriculture. There are estimates, farming will run into serious water-shortages in the Midwest in 20 years.

When the farms die in 30 years, the people will leave the Midwest. The population there will shrink to negligible levels. Less and less voters electing a disproportionate number of Congressmen and Senators.