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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
"I never said they didn't lose any seats, just if you look at it across the two terms it was pretty flat"
The Democrats lost 69 seats, according to NPR. That's not "pretty flat" by any sane definition.
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I said across his tenure, they lost the house and then it stayed pretty flat.
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"The bigger point is there's little correlation between dem losses and your vastly superior ideology."
Sure, sure, all those people voted for republicans specifically because they prefer liberalism to conservatism.
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The votes that actually decide the election aren't cast for highly partisan reasons. Timing, organization and demographic issues pull a lot of people left and right.