We should all know by now that Clinton had a landslide win in the popular vote but lost the Electoral College which essentially has given Republican votes more value than Democratic votes.
Turns out that's true in the Senate as well.
Democrats won popular vote in the Senate, too
The article reports:
Those are preliminary results.
Wiki summary
Democrats lost the House only by 1%. But they lost the seats by 10% thanks to gerrymandering.
Turns out that's true in the Senate as well.
Democrats won popular vote in the Senate, too
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It turns out that Democrats also got more votes for the U.S. Senate than Republicans, and yet Republicans maintained their majority on Capitol Hill. In results that are still preliminary, 45.2 million Americans cast a vote for a Democratic Senate candidate, while 39.3 million Americans voted for a Republican. ... The vote totals for Senate are also a bit arbitrary because each state gets two senators no matter how few people live there. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was re-elected with 111,000 votes; Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York was re-elected with 4.8 million votes. |
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Republicans captured the majority of the "popular vote" for the House on Election Day, collecting about 56.3 million votes while Democrats got about 53.2 million, according to USA TODAY calculations. With a few races still undecided, Republicans so far hold a 239-193 majority for the next Congress. |
Wiki summary
Democrats lost the House only by 1%. But they lost the seats by 10% thanks to gerrymandering.
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