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2016 Postmortem

Botany

(70,524 posts) Sun Nov 11, 2012, 10:51 AM Nov 2012

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Not counting Ron Barber (fingers crossed) how many Congressional Seats did we pick up ...

..... nationally? I might be wrong but if it was not for all the post 2010 election Gerrymandering
I think we would have control of the house too. Look @ Ohio we went for Obama, we went for
Sen. Brown, and Dems out number Repugs by a nice margin and yet we only have 4 of the 16
Congressional seats.

Please help me w/ how many Congressional seats that the dems picked up nationally.

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Not counting Ron Barber (fingers crossed) how many Congressional Seats did we pick up ... (Original Post) Botany Nov 2012 OP

Did Barber hold his seat? DURHAM D Nov 2012 #1

It looks like 194 to 233 oops sorry. mucifer Nov 2012 #2

That's only 417 seats. mojitojoe Nov 2012 #3

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DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)

1. Did Barber hold his seat?

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:03 AM

Nov 2012

I have not seen the updated numbers from Arizona.

jftr - he was not a pick up

mucifer

(23,555 posts)

2. It looks like 194 to 233 oops sorry.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:04 AM

Nov 2012

http://www.c-span.org/Election/Map/

mojitojoe

(94 posts)

3. That's only 417 seats.

Reply to mucifer (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:08 AM

Nov 2012

You're missing 18.

According to Wikipedia it was a Democrat pickup of 6 seats. New Congress will have 236 Republicans to 199 Democrats.

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