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Related: About this forumDemocrats sweep last undecided House races
Democrats claimed victory Monday in the final undecided House races of the 2012 election, as President Barack Obamas party picked up a total of eight seats to narrow the Republican majority.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/19/democrats-sweep-last-undecided-house-races/
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Democrats sweep last undecided House races (Original Post)
UCmeNdc
Nov 2012
OP
Now if we can only find 18 Republicans to caucus with us on a lot of issues. nt
Comrade_McKenzie
Nov 2012
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underthematrix
(5,811 posts)1. great news Dem 201 to 234 for GOP
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)2. Excellent news! It would have been more had districts not been
gerrymandered to favor the GOP. Ugh! I'm still angry about the 2010 midterms that made this possible.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)3. Now if we can only find 18 Republicans to caucus with us on a lot of issues. nt
kennetha
(3,666 posts)4. only 24 districts were ticket splitters
Don't know what the distribution of ticket splitters is though. In the old Congress, there were 45 ticket splitting districts.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)8. That is a very hard thing to do. The GOP marches in lockstep.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)5. they were only "undecided" because repugs have a hard tine excepting
Arithmetic!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)6. +1000 nt
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)7. Dems won the popular vote total in the U.S. House too!!! = MANDATE
Filibuster Harry
(666 posts)9. excellent job. let's go dems!!!