Retaking the House in historical context
By Vivek Krishnamurthy
As we wait to hear the final word on the Virginia Senate race, it's worth putting the scope of the Democratic victory on the House side in context. As a professor of mine here at Yale pointed out, the Democrats owned the House of Representatives from the Great Depression until the Republican Revolution of 1994, save for one short blip between 1946-48. The shift in the control of the House that we saw last night is truly a historic event, therefore, and Democrats should be proud of having achieved the most difficult feat in American electoral politics.
As we wait to hear the final word on the Virginia Senate race, it's worth putting the scope of the Democratic victory on the House side in context. As a professor of mine here at Yale pointed out, the Democrats owned the House of Representatives from the Great Depression until the Republican Revolution of 1994, save for one short blip between 1946-48. The shift in the control of the House that we saw last night is truly a historic event, therefore, and Democrats should be proud of having achieved the most difficult feat in American electoral politics.
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4:10 PM
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