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

[Aaron Blake]

The Fix has crunched the numbers on that.

If you take out those California races that weren't a Dem vs. a Republican,
Democrats still led 48.75 percent to 48.41 percent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/12/in-1996-house-democrats-also-won-the-popular-vote-but-remained-in-the-minority/



On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Derek Muller <derek.muller at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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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!
>>
>>
>> Bradley A. Smith
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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
>> McDonald [mmcdon at gmu.edu]
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 3:03 PM
>> To: law-election at uci.edu
>> Subject: Re: [EL] 2012 first time since 1952 when US House popular vote
>> majority        ends up as minority
>>
>> Clearly, friends should not let friends type and talk on the phone:
>>
>> Here is the correct 1996 link:
>>
>> http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996election.pdf
>>
>> Sorry for the clutter.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
>> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
>> Michael
>> McDonald
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:42 PM
>> To: law-election at uci.edu
>> Subject: Re: [EL] 2012 first time since 1952 when US House popular vote
>> majority ends up as minority
>>
>> Of course, that was 2006 that I sent out. Only a decade off!
>>
>> Here is the 1996 numbers (p.83 of the pdf)
>>
>> http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2006election.pdf
>>
>> Democrats received 43.4 million to the Republicans' 43.1 million.
>>
>> ============
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>> George Mason University
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>> From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu
>> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of
>> Richard
>> Winger
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 2:26 PM
>> To: law-election at uci.edu
>> Subject: [EL] 2012 first time since 1952 when US House popular vote
>> majority
>> ends up as minority
>>
>>
>> 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-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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