There’s no doubt about it. Tuesday night’s election results were historic. The Republican sixty-three-and-counting pick up in the House of Representatives is the biggest gain for an out-of-power party in a president’s first mid-term election since 1922. Even at the height of the Great Depression in November 1930, Democrats running against the policies of an unpopular president, Herbert Hoover, managed to defeat only fifty-three GOP congressmen.
As for the U.S. Senate, the Republican pick up of seven seats is the best performance since 1994, nearly doubling the the post-World War II first mid-term election average of four Senate seats gained. The national victories also translated into significant Republican gubernatorial and state-legislative gains, which are important for 2011 when Congressional redistricting will begin.
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