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Sep 8, 2020 · Atheists (7% of voters in 2018) supported Democratic candidates by an overwhelming 88% to 9% margin, rivaling Black support for the Democrats. Agnostics (also 7% of voters) were not far behind, supporting Democratic candidates by a 79% to 18% margin.
Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Explainers. Why wasn’t the blue wave bigger? Democrats won the popular vote in House races by a big margin. There is a reason that didn’t translate to more seats. By...
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Dec 20, 2018 · December 20, 2018. As the last states certify their vote totals from the November midterms, it’s become increasingly clear that 2018 was a landmark election for voter turnout. So far, 118...
Feb 22, 2024 · The United States 2018 midterm elections occurred on Tuesday, November 6, 2018, and by many measures, it was a record-setting year. More women ran for Congress than ever before, Senators in ...
Dec 10, 2018 · Javier Zarracina/Vox. It’s important to put this in context: 2018 saw the highest percentage of midterm voter turnout since 1914, when 50.4 percent of eligible voters went to the polls, as Vox’s...
Mar 13, 2021 · The 2018 midterm elections do fit with historical patterns of midterm loss. The Democratic Party won 9% more of the votes nationally than did the Republican Party. However, voter turnout, although still low by presidential-year standards, was at its highest (49%) in 100 years (Galston and Hendrickson Citation 2019).
Abstract. Why did the American electorate elect a solid majority of Republicans to the House in 2016 and then 2 years later replace it with a solid majority of Democrats? This article revives the idea of an electoral mandate and applies it to the 2016 and 2018 elections.
