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Ten years ago, Republicans held more than 20 House seats in Johnson County. In this year’s election they won a dozen, according to unofficial results . Still, Democrats had hoped to press their ...
The idea of “red states” and “blue states” may feel deeply embedded in the symbolism of US politics, but before 2000 the colors were often the other way around. Republicans are red and ...
In contrast to a red wave, a "blue wave" can occur as well if Democrats win the presidency, the House and the Senate. The last time a blue wave occurred was in 2008 when Barack Obama was elected ...
While Democrats ultimately retained control of the House following the 2020 elections, Republicans made a net gain of 14 seats [2] and the Democrats entered 2021 with a narrow 222–213 House majority. [3] [4] This was the first time since 2004 that the Republican Party made net gains in the House during a presidential election year. This led ...
This marked the last of five House elections in which the party that won the popular vote was unable to receive a majority in the House. The previous four times were in 1914, 1942, 1952, and 1996; in the former two elections, Democrats won the House majority without winning the popular vote, whereas in the latter two, the Republicans did so. [8 ...
Republicans controlled the US House from 1995 until 2007. However, the Republican party regained its power in state legislatures following the losses by the Democrats in the 2010 mid-terms. The Democrats were unpopular with voters at this time, [ 6 ] allowing Republicans to implement a political effort called REDMAP that enabled them to redraw ...
Prior to 2000, red and blue did not always respectively denote Republicans and Democrats.
They needed a net gain of only four seats to flip control of the House given that Republicans now hold 220 seats to the Democrats’ 212 — one of the smallest majorities in modern history.