I think the extrapolation is too high. Every large state voted for a Senate race which totaled 56 million ballots cast.

Following the link to Kevin's earlier post, I see that the first comment was from someone named Thomas1, who was trying to get people to bet him that the Democrats would not take both houses of Congress. Did anybody take the bet? How much did he lose, anyway?

I find it interesting that so many of your entries have dealt with how the Democrats won the election, and so few have dealt with what happens next.

Certainly Pelosi, Reid, and Dean face many challenges -- from Democrats as well as from Republicans. How will they respond? How will the Democratic agenda evolve? Who will assume positions of leadership?

So Democrats beat Republicans by about 7.4 percentage points, which means the generic polls overestimated Dem strength by about four points.

Or that's the rate of Republican suppression success.

Are all the race tallies done? How many seats did the Dems gain? 29, 30, ?

Now, consider the electronic voting machines, special ballots and absentee ballots. Will those have had a significant effect on the outcome?

I'm told there is at least one anomaly in western Virginia which might've given Allen a better chance of winning than he deserved. Is it possible the Repubs were trying to rig several races, but that the blue tsunami was just too much for them to overcome?

Which states had significant Repub holdouts where the vote for them noticably bucked the Blue trend?

I think there are some stories yet to be discovered and told.

The word is that the fancy-pants poli-sci folks don't believe these exit-poll percentages. 53.7 is just two low, the argument goes. Keep you eye out for follow-up studies...

Thomas1, a.k.a. Charlie, is a lying right-wing troll. Most sensible people here ignore his insane brain droppings.

In the New York Times this morning, there's a large breakdown of who voted for which party. I did some math on the subway, so take this for what it is, but if you separate out the white, born-again Christians, the vote was something like 65-to-35 in favor of the Democrats.

Man, the tighter the Republicans embrace the Ted Haggard right, the better off the Democrats will be. The nation, too.

Once you factor in that ten of those points are from liberal media bias, the Democrats actually lost. As soon as there's media parity, the Democrat lose big.

I'm not sure that the race-obsessed Steve Sailer is the kind of person who should be getting a link from a prominent mainstream blog for any reason.

Actually, a given majority of the popular vote in this election structure should lead to a larger majority of seats. The ratio I faintly recall from college or somewhere involves the ratio of cubes, which would produce about 61 percent of the seats. Maybe the Republicans do have a built-in structural advantage.

I've read that the international oddmaking markets correctly picked all of the Senate races.

Thomas1 has entered a Gambler's Anonymous rehab clinc. Blamed most of his problems on booze and getting away from the Lord.

I think there are some stories yet to be discovered and told. MarkH

You are right. And why should there be 4 percent discrepancy? Until we have a paper trail for every vote our democracy is suspect.

Thomas1 has entered a Gambler's Anonymous rehab clinc....
Posted by: thethirdPaul on November 9, 2006 at 12:54 PM | PERMALINK

Really? I thought it was a gay-deprogramming-camp.

I think the Democracy Corps analysis adequately addressed this issue as well as the "tightening". The tightening was just a converging of the generic ballot and the named ballot, the latter of which remained unchanged. The right was salivating over the so-called tightening, but in reality, nothing changed in the last days, except that perhaps Heather Wilson receieved all of the undecided vote in NM-01 and defied the wave.

Before we throw our hats in the air and cheer for the triumph of the American Electoral system, maybe we should consider that (prior to Tuesday’s vote) the Republican "majority" of Senators actually represented less people than the "minority" of Democratic Senators.

Even though I only predicted 4 Senate seats officially, rdw exasperated me into laying out the conditions of the race, to explain why his Limbloviation was wrong and we were going to win.

At the end of that comment, I called all the Senate seats right -- not realizing at the time I was predicting more than four :)

Bob

Perhaps the failings of the GOP in general, George W Bush in particular, and the hypocracy of the religious right has opened the eyes of young people who now understand the implications of reality-free leadership.

In the South, they've experience reality free disaster management. I've seen the pictures. But San Diego is a long ways from New Orleans. But I know people who hail from that region. They are angry--at incompetence.

Young women, who may not like abortion in general, must realize that the evangelicals would take away their right to choose.

Young people now understand the pain and suffering experienced by their friends and relations who have come back from Iraq dead or wounded--one of the 20,000 and growing. These young people can see that the policy is failing and that these friends and family are dying for nothing--for incompetence.

Young people realize the difficulty they face in finding insurance.

The GOP Zealots are apparently happy to continue mouthing inanities about the liberal media, defeatocrats, cut-and-run, and similar us-versus-them, liberal versus conservative fabricated controversies.

The GOP Zealots are destroying their party and they apparently don't even realize it.

I believe greater access to information online, to news unfiltered by the Entertainment Media, will increasingly educate the electorate. I think this will be bad for the GOP. The GOP is ill and the GOP Zealots, including those who post here, are digging its grave with all their worthless commentary.

Hey American Hawk, didn't the RNC send you your pink slip yet? You're off the payroll as of Weds.

Once you factor in that ten of those points are from liberal media bias, the Democrats actually lost.

Face it, Americans are so dumb they vote the way the media tells them to. What a bunch of sheep. We'd win too, if the New York Times would only tell people to vote Republican.

See, Kevin's blog can't even spell my name right the first time.

Maybe the Republicans do have a built-in structural advantage.

They do. It's called gerrymandering.

The word "gerrymander" comes from what Democrat and Ned Lamont ancestor Elbridge Gerry did to his opponents. Most recently, Democrats in the California state house opposed reforms to gerrymandering.

This is very funny.

Repubs have suddenly found the religion of Bipartisanship!

Bipartisanship is defined by liberals - "everytime you agree with us."

I am still waiting for all of this liberal outrage about election fraud to bubble up and demand investigation. Notice all the lawsuits being filed by the Republicans concerning the election results. What, there aren't any?

Oh, it must be because Dems never steal any elections. Everytime a Dem is elected it is because the world is suddenly in harmony.

Wow, those Republicans must suddenly be lousy at stealing elections. I thought Rove was so good. I am sure none of this was an election tactic which will happen again in 2008.

If you are accusing the Democratic pasrty of election rigging, please cite your sources. Once again you are reposting on another thread a point that has been refuted on another. I cited examples of voter suppression efforts in St. Louis. Shall I retrieve the permalink. I cited my source. You do the same or stfu.

I'll look for your sources when I get back from school. Back in 3.

Democrats in the California state house opposed reforms to gerrymandering.

The Democrats in California refused to unilaterally disarm in the face of Tom Delay's grab of 6 House seats in Texas. If you want to reform the redistricting system, do it in all 50 states at the same time, not just in big Democratic states.

The ACORN scandal doesn't look too good for the Democrats.

I can't understand why rdw hasn't shown up. Based on his body of posts and the quality of their relationship to reality, I'm fully expecting him to appear and gloat over the GOP's continued hold on the House, Senate, majority of governorships and majority of state legislatures. Then, he'll tell us that if we renounce George Beelzebub Clooney and all of Old Europe, we might do better next time.

Too weird for coincidence?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/8/183154/217

In 2000 in Connecticut the Republican challenger, who lost to Lieberman, received 448,077 votes.

In 2006 Ned Lamont received --448,077 votes.

It's magic!

Back on topic, if one assumes that Steve counted the numbers on the Fox News website correctly, here's the breakdown of the House vote:

Democrats 36,648,024 51.2%

Republicans 33,262,303 46.5%

Other 1,660,487 2.3%

Total 71,570,814

Steve accurately notes that "the Democrats had 30 seats where their House candidates were unopposed, so Fox didn't list a vote total, versus only 4 where the Republican candidates had a walkover." My specific issue is with Steve using the average number of votes for all parties in the above 401 contested districts (178,481) and extrapolating that to get a new total of 77,639,162. I readily agree the real total is somewhere between 71 million and 77 million.

Off Topic:

The Death of Bipartisanship

The Murderer, GWB

Bush intends to try to push through the nomination of John Bolton in the lame duck Congress. Gee, that guy is really conciliatory, isn't he?

That must have been a pretty close race in 2000, cld, particularly in a state in which only 20 or so percent of registered voters identify as Republican.

You're not trying to tell us that Connecticut failed to appreciate Joe's genius and goodness back then, too? (I know what you're actually trying to tell us, but anyway...)

T.R. Elliott: But San Diego is a long ways from New Orleans. But I know people who hail from that region. They are angry--at incompetence.

San Diego County is still conservative. It went for Bush by about 6 percentage points in 2004. But Kerry and Gore both carried the city of San Diego.

The folks I hang out with in San Diego are as liberal as anybody you will find anywhere. They find a lot more than incompetence to be angry at.

I have to give the trolls around here some credit-- even in light of the total Dem takeover of everything that was available to be taken over-- House, Senate, governorships, state legislatures-- they are still arrogant, condescending schumcks.

David in NY: Bush intends to try to push through the nomination of John Bolton in the lame duck Congress. Gee, that guy is really conciliatory, isn't he?

Can you imagine what all else he's going to try to shove through in the lame duck session? Fasten your seatbelts!

Wow, those Republicans must suddenly be lousy at stealing elections. I thought Rove was so good. I am sure none of this was an election tactic which will happen again in 2008.
Posted by: Orwell on November 9, 2006 at 1:33 PM | PERMALINK

The dems were ready for them this time. 7000 lawyers.

Plus - election cheaters tended to lose their chutzpah when it seemed that Dems were going to win anyway. Hm - having an opposing party in charge of investigating sure makes a difference in keeping these slimeballs honest.

Orwell on November 9, 2006 at 1:33 PM:

Notice all the lawsuits being filed by the Republicans concerning the election results. What, there aren't any?

Silly man...Do you actually think that 'Publicans actually want any investigation of voter suppression or fraud?...*snicker*...

So, no one wants to discuss the actual thread topic about the House vote tally?

anandine: I agree with your observations about San Diego. I only focused on Katrina because I believe some in the GOP have discounted how damaging this had been for them. The Democrats need to continue to focus on competence. The GOP are supposed to be the business party, but I think they are really the old-boys party, less concerned about economics, effectiveness, and efficiency, more concerned about back-scratching, slush-funds, and payola.

I think there is an issue with incumbency in the current era that these simple math projections miss that doesn't show how strongly people feel. Every party that goes in as the majority gets a 2% pts. boost in representation compared to their actual vote totals. So, that would mean that the public supported the Dems by at least 9% pts. Also shouldn't you be counting the 32-24m votes in the Senate too. Last time I checked the Senate was part of the Congress.

They are generic congressional polls, not generic House of Representative polls.

I note that Kevin starts his analysis with "First, the national House vote." That may mean he's working on a Senate vote count thread as we speak.

Merikun Hack

Once you factor in that ten of those points are from liberal media bias, the Democrats actually lost. As soon as there's media parity, the Democrat lose big.

How about we just go back to media objectivity. We don't need dueling Pravdas.

Nice to know that the majority of people are not in favor of piles of debt, more pollution and endless war, which is all the modern Republican Party really offers....

How about we just go back to media objectivity.

Hard to go "back" to a place you've never been.

Orwell, I'm back. Where are your sources?

Don't have any?

Maybe because they are as fictional as those WMD's?

Anandine: Ever been to the Belly Up? Or better yet - have you ever heard of a band called The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash?

What made Rove so effective was a combination of marketing genius and a willingness to use any tactic/tool to win no matter how unethical/immoral/illegal so long as he could set up cut-outs to prevent it from tracing back to him and his candidate. For the most part he has been successful in his career with this; the SBVfT was one of the very rare times he ever left a fingerprint. After all, while it may have been obvious that these groups supported Rove's candidate it was rarely if ever that one could point to actual evidence showing a link beyond common candidate support. Rove also believed in the scorched earth approach to politics as well as believing that to be bipartisan was to show weakness and be ineffectual.

He managed to take what should have been a massive disaster for his guy and turned it into a powerful club with which to smash any opposition with on any topic, remember when if you didn't support tax cuts and such in the first term you were helping terrorists by being disloyal to the President in time of war? Recall also that the main reason the GOP did as well as it did in 2002 was the combination of using the Homeland Security legislation to deunionize tens of thousands of public sector workers which caused resistence from several Dems and the Iraq war resolution which Bush said had to be passed prior to the election. It was used to beat up on any candidate that dared disagree, and it made it that much harder for any up for reelection politician to speak against it for fear of being branded disloyal to a President in time of war and being "overly partisan" after promising to be bipartisan after 9/11/01.

2004 it was again the Iraq war that was mainly used as a club, along with the so called war on terror. It was following the script that Americans preferred strong if wrong to weak but right/correct. At no time did Rove demonstrate anything more than an absolute disregard for the laws regarding election campaigns combined with a willingness to do/say anything against an opponent regardless of how true or false (usually false in his case) and then market his guy as the only salvation against these clearly dangerous lunatics opposing his guy.

Rove is nothing more than someone willing to use any and all means to gain and hold power regardless of morality and legality combined with some real skills as a marketing person. That is all Rove ever was. That does not take away from just how dangerous and effective he was in stealing the 2000 election as well as turning/using the fuckup of his guy on 9/11/01 in 2002 and 2004 to paint Bush as the strong warrior leader that will take America's revenge on the evildoers that attacked on 9/11/01. What he is not is a true political genius, as what he did was done by not staying within the rules and laws of his profession, he broke them all whenever he could and that doesn't take genius, working within them and winning does. Breaking the rules/laws shows not genius but immorality and power lust, nothing more.

Incidentally, I also thought frankly0's post to be a good read on things, as I did cmdicely's.

I thought frankly0 and cmdicely's posts to be good reads too, over on the Rove "Will of the People" thread.

Actually, if 232 is the final number, Alan I. Abramowitz (definitely a poli-sci type) got the House absolutely correct. (See my list here.)

Jeffrey:

Thanks I must of hit the wrong tab and didn't realize it when I posted this. I've copied over to the proper thread. Sorry about that, I'm still a little short on my sleep from the last couple of days.

orwell: Bipartisanship is defined by liberals - "everytime you agree with us."

"Bipartisanship is just another word for date-rape." - GOP Grover Nordquist

I blame Diebold.

Hey, winning 53.3% of House seats with 53.7% of the two-party vote is pretty bad. The winning party should always win a higher fraction of seats than its fraction of the two-party vote in a first past the post constituency system. Just think of a more extreme case: winning 70% of seats if you won 70% of the two-party vote would be pretty bad.

The current system generates results that are biased towards Republicans, and under a more equal system this Democratic vote share would have gained Democrats more seats. Partly this phenomena is due to gerrymandering, partly majority-minority districts, and partly sectionalism -- and those overlap.

The closeness of these two figures is just luck. "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

Wow, those Republicans must suddenly be lousy at stealing elections. I thought Rove was so good. I am sure none of this was an election tactic which will happen again in 2008.
Posted by: Orwell on November 9, 2006 at 1:33 PM | PERMALINK

The dems were ready for them this time. 7000 lawyers.

Plus - election cheaters tended to lose their chutzpah when it seemed that Dems were going to win anyway. Hm - having an opposing party in charge of investigating sure makes a difference in keeping these slimeballs honest.
Posted by: impeach.remove.convict.punish.justice on November 9, 2006 at 2:05 PM

Exactly right. What was different this time? Besides the 1000's of lawyers anxiously waiting with suits ready-to-file, there were 10,000's of activists watching every step of the way with video cameras, camera phones, and organizations like Working Assets' Immediate Response Network. And, of course, the tireless efforts of non-partisan groups promoting election integrity activism.

Bev Harris' group, blackboxvoting.org , are the real heroes of this election.

The point is, if everybody's watching you, it becomes awfully hard to steal anything. If you keep shoplifting the same store, and next time you go in the security guard follows you around, guess what? You're not gonna try anything.

And another thing to consider- election fraud can only really work when an election is close. That way, there's plausibility to the fake results. Most of these races were not so close, and they knew it.

Personally, I think that the margins would have been even larger... but that could just be the tinfoil talking.

BTW, blackboxvoting.org is currently looking at about 500 irregularities nationwide.
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45197.html

those Republicans must suddenly be lousy at stealing elections.... Orwell at 1:33 PM

Democrat Christine Jennings lost to Republican Vern Buchanan by 368 votes, making it the second closest congressional race in the country.
More than 18,000 voters who showed up at the polls voted in other races but not the Buchanan-Jennings race.
That means nearly 13 percent of voters did not vote for either candidate -- a massive undercount compared with other counties, including Manatee, which reported a 2 percent under vote.

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