[Peace-discuss] US midterms

[Szoke, Ron]

Midterm elections: Democrats lead popular vote in House by largest margin in history
Republicans trail by record 8.9m votes with only one seat undecided

  *   Chris Baynes<https://www.independent.co.uk/author/chris-baynes>
  *   The Independent (UK)

Democrats<https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/democrats> are set to pull off the largest midterm elections<https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/midterm-elections> victory in history, according to a breakdown of the popular vote in races for the House of Representatives.
The party leads the Republicans by more than 8.9 million votes across the US, raw data<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WxDaxD5az6kdOjJncmGph37z0BPNhV1fNAH_g7IkpC0/edit#gid=0> compiled by the Cook Political Report, an independent, non-partisan political analysis website.

Previously, the largest margin of victory was 8.7 million, which came in the 1974 midterm elections after the Watergate scandal<https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/watergate> and Richard Nixon<https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/RichardNixon>’s resignation.
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Only one House result remains undeclared. Democrats trail by fewer than 500 votes in California's 23rd congressional district, where there are 15,000 votes left to be counted.

It means the party is on the brink of flipping 40 seats in the House, reaffirming the emerging assessment that this month’s midterms amounted to a ”blue wave”<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/midterms-2018/midterms-results-democrats-blue-wave-late-vote-counts-us-election-trump-republican-a8631176.html>.
Utah’s Mia Love became the latest Republican incumbent to fall as Ben McAdams, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake County, defeated her by fewer than 700 votes in a knife-edge race for the state's fourth congressional district.
She had been billed as one her party's stars when she became its first black congresswoman in 2014.

As of Thursday, Democratic candidates had polled 59,351,147 votes in House seats across the country in the 2018 midterms, compared to Republicans’ 50,438,143, according to the Cook Political Report.

Democrats are on course for more than 60.5 million ballots in total<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/midterms-2018-turnout-democrats-trump-election-republicans-nate-silver-votes-a8641006.html>, the closest an opposition party has come in midterm elections to matching the president’s popular vote two years earlier.

Turnout across the country the highest since 1914, with Mr Trump’s divisive presidency and rancorous debates over immigration, healthcare and taxes thought to have driven voters to the ballot box.

At least 49.2 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots, the United States Elections Project estimates, compared to 36.4 per cent in 2014.
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