Democrats Break Decades-long GOP Strongholds in Election Shellacking
Pollsters missed the mark, again. They predicted that Tuesday’s elections would go badly for Republicans, but they missed how bad it would get.
The Democrats not only handily took control of both chambers of Congress, but they did so by winning several traditionally Republican seats, even managing to flip two governorships that have been red since before the iPhone was invented.
They captured a dozen offices that have been in Republican control for at least two decades. And the exit polls and analysis are already clear about the major reason this happened: The shellacking was, in essence, a…
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