Democrats reach 40 House flips - 2018's "blue wave" was the party's biggest win in recent memory.
FRANK DALE DEC 10, 2018, 8:00 AM
It’s been a month since Democrats, who needed to flip 23 GOP-held seats in order to take back the House, routed Republicans in the midterms. And while regaining control of the House for the first time in eight years hasn’t been in doubt since a few hours after the first polls closed on Election Day, the exact margin remained in question due to a handful of races that required additional time to count votes.
But now that almost all of those too-close-to-call races have been called for Democrats, the number of flipped seats — which seemed likely to be in the low-30s on the morning after the midterms — reached 40 on Thursday. It was only the second time that Democrats achieved such a dramatic swing in a single election during the past half-century.
https://thinkprogress.org/house-democrats-blue-wave-2018-midterm-elections-40-flips-congress-nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-republicans-56ebbdf68e32/