[h=1]Democrats received almost as many midterms votes as Trump in presidential election - results show it[/h]
Democrats received almost as many midterms votes as Trump in presidential election – results show it's a 'a crazy number'
Highest turnout since 1914 sees party come within touching distance of presidential popular vote tally
America’s midterm elections saw Democrats win an unprecedented number of votes for an opposition party thanks to high turnout numbers.
Democratic candidates are forecast to receive more than 60.5 million votes in total for the house once the final ballots have been counted.
If accurate, the figure would be the closest an opposition party has come in a midterm election to matching the president’s backing two years earlier.
Donald Trump received just shy of 63 million votes in 2016, as he lost the popular vote but achieved a comfortable victory under the electoral college system.
House Democrats are currently on course to hit around 96 per cent of Mr Trump’s vote share from two years prior, beating the record 92 per cent of Richard Nixon’s share from 1968 seen in the subsequent midterms.
Pollster Nate Silver described the number of voters mobilised for the Democrats during the midterms as “crazy”, given turnout is usually considerably lower than in presidential elections.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...n-republicans-nate-silver-votes-a8641006.html
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Democrats received almost as many midterms votes as Trump in presidential election – results show it's a 'a crazy number'
Highest turnout since 1914 sees party come within touching distance of presidential popular vote tally
America’s midterm elections saw Democrats win an unprecedented number of votes for an opposition party thanks to high turnout numbers.
Democratic candidates are forecast to receive more than 60.5 million votes in total for the house once the final ballots have been counted.
If accurate, the figure would be the closest an opposition party has come in a midterm election to matching the president’s backing two years earlier.
Donald Trump received just shy of 63 million votes in 2016, as he lost the popular vote but achieved a comfortable victory under the electoral college system.
House Democrats are currently on course to hit around 96 per cent of Mr Trump’s vote share from two years prior, beating the record 92 per cent of Richard Nixon’s share from 1968 seen in the subsequent midterms.
Pollster Nate Silver described the number of voters mobilised for the Democrats during the midterms as “crazy”, given turnout is usually considerably lower than in presidential elections.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...n-republicans-nate-silver-votes-a8641006.html
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