CeliaHensonNov 13, 2022
Greg Siskind

RT @[email protected]

If there’s a tiny GOP House majority next year, it won’t be legitimate. https://twitter.com/steve_vladeck/status/1591640016295694336

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1591736516124020737

Steve Vladeck on Twitter

“Federal courts ruled earlier this year that AL, GA, and LA each had to draw an additional “majority-minority” House district to satisfy federal law. In unsigned, unexplained orders, #SCOTUS *blocked* those rulings — resulting in three R seats that would likely have been D seats.”

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Show threadMichaelNov 13, 2022

@Gsiskind

Is anyone tracking the national popular vote in House races? I’ll have a go later if not, the data are out there. It is less meaningful than in a presidential election, but I would hesitate to call a House majority illegitimate if that party received the most votes.

Show threadMichael Wood   Nov 13, 2022
@mqs @Gsiskind you can see the national vote totals at Cook. It’s not particularly useful at the moment because California is still counting and a ton of Democratic vote comes out of California. https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022
2022 National House Vote Tracker

 

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Show threadMichaelNov 13, 2022
@Gsiskind @Hyper_Eye
Thanks!
Show threadMichael Wood   Nov 13, 2022
@mqs @Gsiskind something else to consider when looking at the House popular vote is the fact that there were more congressional districts with no Democratic option than there were without a Republican option. FiveThirtyEight has talked about this a few times over the last couple months. The overall number doesn’t mean as much when people that would like to have voted for a democrat didn’t have one to vote for.
Show threadMichaelNov 13, 2022
@Hyper_Eye @Gsiskind
Sure. I mean in the end, the aggregate national vote is meaningless, without practical consequence. However, and despite everything, I would have a hard time labeling as illegitimate a party that received more votes. Many things to say about the Republican Party, but people do seem to keep voting for them.