[EL] 2012 first time since 1952 when US House popular vote majority ends up as minority

[Derek Muller]

How might the California top-two system affect this analysis, if at all?
That is, there were (I believe) six California races in which there were
two Democratic candidates on the ballot, and just two in which there were
two Republican candidates on the ballot. (There were also a few races in
which an independent ran alongside a major party candidate.) It strikes me
that this would distort the historical comparative value of the popular
vote for the parties.

Best,

Derek

Derek T. Muller

Associate Professor of Law

Pepperdine University School of Law

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu>wrote:

> Must have National Popular Vote!
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> ________________________________________
> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Michael
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> majority        ends up as minority
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> Clearly, friends should not let friends type and talk on the phone:
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> Here is the correct 1996 link:
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> http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996election.pdf
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> Sorry for the clutter.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
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> McDonald
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: [EL] 2012 first time since 1952 when US House popular vote
> majority ends up as minority
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> Of course, that was 2006 that I sent out. Only a decade off!
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> Here is the 1996 numbers (p.83 of the pdf)
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> http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2006election.pdf
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> Democrats received 43.4 million to the Republicans' 43.1 million.
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> Winger
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> majority
> ends up as minority
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> http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/11/12/only-four-u-s-house-elections-in-the
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> -last-hundred-years-gave-one-party-a-house-majority-even-though-the-other-ma
> jor-party-polled-more-votes-for-u-s-house/<http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/11/12/only-four-u-s-house-elections-in-the-last-hundred-years-gave-one-party-a-house-majority-even-though-the-other-major-party-polled-more-votes-for-u-s-house/>
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