FerrelGeek
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I'd like to see how many from the party in power retired in those elections vs in 2018. I know a goodly number of Ds left in 1994, but I don't know if it rivaled the 40-45 that left last year.
It was a slaughter. The only thing that saved it from being even worse was gerrymandering and geographic concentration.
Largest absolute vote margin in midterm history:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/el...te-record-house-popular-vote-midterms-n940116
Largest percentage margin for a minority party since 1942 when the US began keeping records of this:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/06/politics/latest-house-vote-blue-wave/index.html
Including all elections it's still the largest margin in recent history with the exception of 2008.
If 2018 wasn't an ass-kicking then ass-kickings don't exist. I encourage conservatives to keep trying to convince themselves that 2018 wasn't a warning though. Keep doing what you're doing! If you won't learn the lessons of what the voters were trying to tell you then you're just dooming yourself to repeat it.