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« on: December 24, 2014, 01:54:02 PM » |
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While it narrowly misses your cutoff, I would have to say 1958 was singularly bad. Past that, I would have to say a three-way tie between 1980, 1994, and 2010: this is a simplistic metric, but if you count each Senate seat as 4.35 House seats and add it to the House total, in 1980 the GOP gained 86 seats; in 1994 they gained 89; and in 2010 they gained 89. (By contrast, the Democratic total in 1958 was an unearthly 119; in 1974 it was "just" 75; 57 in 2006; 59 in 2008; and the Republican total was 52 in 2014).
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