Saturday, January 5, 2013

Democrats Won A Majority Of Congressional Votes But GOP Has Majority Of Seats

This article explains how Democrats won the majority of votes on the last Congressional elections but did not win a majority of seats in the House.  GOP control of more state governments has enabled them to control redistricting in the controlled states.  For example, democrats won more votes in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio but the GOP won the majority of House seats in those states.  In order to win a majority in the House, democrats would have to win more than a 6% majority of the total congressional votes.  The only threat to most GOP incumbents is from Tea Party candidates in congressional primaries.

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