Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate Nationally, 53.1% to 45.2

[Demovictory9]

Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate
Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/democrats-won-house-popular-vote-largest-midterm-margin-watergate-n938996

Not since the Watergate scandal have Democrats run up such a large margin of victory in midterm House races, NBC News data showed.

With votes continuing to be tallied more than two weeks after Election Day, Democrats hold a lead over Republicans in the House popular vote by more than 8.6 million votes.

That's the largest total victory in a midterm House election since Democrats defeated Republicans by more than 8.7 million votes in 1974, just months after President Richard Nixon resigned from office in disgrace.

And the number is continuing to inch up.

As of noon on Wednesday, Democratic House candidates won 58,990,609 votes while their Republican counterparts pulled in 50,304,975. That means that, so far, Democrats won 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans earned 45.2 percent.

[ffr]

1. Yep. Boom!

[elocs]

2. If we could only move some of those excess 8.5 million votes to other races lost.

But then it doesn't work that way does it?
Or like those millions of popular votes that Clinton had over Trump which came from California.
Theoretically, had she won the state by just 1 vote she would have won all of its electoral votes while the millions extra were just piling on and of no use in an election decided by electoral votes. That's why I think this celebrating how Democrats won the popular vote total in House races which are individual congressional district races is a useless exercise which is somehow supposed to make us feel better.

[FBaggins]

4. Exactly

Attempts to spin the otherwise substantial victory into being larger than it was do nothing but highlight how it wasn’t what we hoped for.

Like your point, the simple question “would you prefer if we won three million additional votes but only picked up 20’seats??” makes clear how silly the artificial (and irrelevant) standard is.

There’s a reason that most Democrats describe the election as “disappointing” while most Republicans would say they were “relieved”.

[dbackjon]

7. You are discounting Gerrymandering and Voter Suppression

Ohio/Texas/Georgia/North Carolina/Florida

If there were FAIR elections in those states, Democrats would have added at LEAST 15, likely 25 more seats in the House.

[Wintryjade]

3. Such awesome, yet the other headline... Kick Pelosi out.

And instead, Pelosi's supporters spoke up, and there were a lot more of us. I feel our Democratic Party is very strong, very united.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Yippie!

Now what...What do we do with the Senate, an incredibly divided American population, and the Electoral College?

[workinclasszero]

6. So Hillary won the popular vote by 3 million

And Dems won the midterms by 8.6 million!

Just wait until 2020 when the Democratic Party wipes the stain of Trumpism from the world stage to the tune of tens of millions of votes over the damn GOP!!!

[elocs]

13. Yeah, if only we could have moved some of those 3 million more popular votes

which came from California to Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, things would be different now. But as we all know, presidents are not elected by national popular vote. And neither are House candidates who are elected by popular vote in each congressional district.

I wonder if a losing World Series team could claim they were actually the winner because they scored the most runs in the games played rather than be the one to win 4 games.
But that's now how it works either.

[workinclasszero]

15. Michigan and Pennsylvania will go dem in 2020

Wisconsin I'm not sure about.

They all know the orange shitstain in charge is a dirty damn liar now.

[Rizen]

8. Alright!

This helped me get back some faith in humanity.

[former9thward]

9. Democrats will have 54% of the seats in the House.

So they will have slightly more seats than their percentage of the vote.

[spike jones]

10. That is the good news,

but in a time when our democracy is under full Fascist assault, the bad news is that only about 50% of registered voters actually voted

[cstanleytech]

11. I suspect the only reason the Repugnants kept as many seats is the cheating they worked at

such as all the gerrymandering as well as other tactics they used to quash the voters ability to kick them out of office like what happened here in Georgia.

[Wintryjade]

14. I agree.

[Scurrilous]

12. K&R