Districts where Republicans underperformed

[ElectionsGuy]

Again, due to the Democratic trend nationally of college educated suburbs to the Democrats, some Republicans underperformed. Here are some of them.

FL-07

Murphy: 181,758 (51.5%)
Mica: 171,412 (48.5%)

In my opinion, this was the most shocking house result of the election. I thought Mica was a good fit, I don't even know if Clinton won this one, but nonetheless he got squeaked out and at best performed only slightly better than Trump.

FL-27

Ros-Lehtinen: 157,763 (54.9%)
Fuhrman: 129,548 (45.1%)

Ros-Lehtinen has had no problem winning in landslides in her Democratic leaning Cuban districts before, until now. It appears her popularity is rubbing off with polarization.

AL-02

Roby: 134,450 (54.6%)
Mathis: 111,640 (45.4%)

This one is a complete mystery to me, a 63% Romney district with no Trump weaknesses. Roby has to be an exceptionally bad candidate or something?

TX-07

Culberson: 143,369 (56.2%)
Cargas: 111,774 (43.8%)

A great example of what challenges the Texas GOP will have to face in the future holding on to their edge in the state. This was at least 59% Romney in 2012 and Trump undoubtedly dragged him down in this suburban Houston seat.

NJ-05

Gottheimer: 156,863 (50.5%)
Garrett: 146,643 (47.2%)

We knew Garrett was somewhat of a bad candidate, but comparing to everything else I certainly didn't expect this to be one of the few defeats. Trump probably even carried the district, but nontheless an obvious under performance.

CA-49

Issa: 102,953 (51.0%)
Applegate: 98,867 (49.0%)

We saw early signs in the primary, but the possibility of Issa losing is kind of mindblowing. Certainly a D trending area of Orange and San Diego that Republicans are going to have a hard time in the next few years holding on to.