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Rachel Maddow Uses Non-Existent ‘House Popular Vote’ To Try To Prove There Really Was A Blue Wave
The Daily Caller ^ | November 16, 2018 | Virginia Kruta

Posted on 11/20/2018 8:30:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow referenced the “House popular vote” in an effort to explain how the Nov. 6th midterm elections really did represent the “blue wave” many Democrats had been hoping to create.

“As of this morning, the Democratic lead in the US House popular vote is up to 7.3%, from 7.2% yesterday. For comparison purposes, note that in 2010 – which was widely seen as a GOP ‘wave’ cycle – Republicans won the US House popular vote by 6.6%,” Maddow tweeted.

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What Maddow was saying was that overall, more nationwide votes were cast for Democrats in House seats than for Republicans. She further noted that the Democrats’ total vote advantage — 7.3 percent — was greater than the advantage enjoyed by Republicans — 6.6 percent — in 2010.

Maddow left out the fact that the House popular vote is not actually a metric used to officially determine anything — and that the number of House seats gained by Democrats in 2018 (as many as 40 once the final votes are tallied) is still dwarfed by the record number of seats gained by Republicans in 2010, when President Obama lost 63 House seats and six more in the Senate.

The MSNBC host is not the only one running with the “House popular vote” narrative....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; State and Local; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; congress; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2018; election2020; maddow; media; mediawingofthednc; midterms; msnbc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rachelmaddow; smearmachine

1 posted on 11/20/2018 8:30:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, everything Rachel Maddow says is a lie. You can’t trust a word that guy says.


2 posted on 11/20/2018 8:34:20 PM PST by dinodino
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What are the numbers for the “Senate popular vote”?


3 posted on 11/20/2018 8:42:36 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills update.


4 posted on 11/20/2018 8:44:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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...the number of House seats gained by Democrats in 2018 (as many as 40 once the final votes are tallied) is still dwarfed by the record number of seats gained by Republicans in 2010, when President Obama lost 63 House seats and six more in the Senate.

5 posted on 11/20/2018 8:45:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nonexistent? Why the next thing you know there really won’t be three chambers of Congress as per Occasional Kotex.


6 posted on 11/20/2018 8:48:06 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: FoxInSocks

Now, that’s just silly

Republicans won those Senate seats by gerrymandering


7 posted on 11/20/2018 9:10:51 PM PST by digger48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s like Calypso Louie (Louis Farrakhan) math.

The building is 110 feet tall. 0 is the number of jews killed that leaves 11. There are nine people looking at me right now and that gives you 9-11.

If you take the number of democrats in the country, plus the number we know are here (illegal aliens) and subtract the number of suppressed votes. You end up with 95% of the population hates Trump. It’s a blue wave.


8 posted on 11/20/2018 9:16:10 PM PST by for-q-clinton (This article needs a fact checked)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does Major league baseball give a trophy to the team in the world series that scores the most total runs or base hits regardless of who won the most games? Because that’s what they’re doing here. MSNBC has become sports talk radio for political zealots.


9 posted on 11/20/2018 9:24:10 PM PST by jz638
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess Madcow isn’t just another pretty face, but also a mathematics professor, PolySci prof, and Demographics expert all rolled up into one genius.

But I could be wrong, I guess.


10 posted on 11/20/2018 9:30:52 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

More venomous dike shibai


11 posted on 11/20/2018 9:40:24 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That dude Madow is a moron.


12 posted on 11/20/2018 9:43:57 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Maddow’s supposedly very intelligent, yet she wants to be ruled over by democrat politicians.

Boggles the mind doesn’t it?


13 posted on 11/20/2018 9:44:51 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

add math to the list of subjects that The Happy Lesbian failed.


14 posted on 11/20/2018 9:51:50 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

journolistas do not care about facts


15 posted on 11/20/2018 10:12:21 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So a bunch of illegal immigrants vote in a few sanctuary states and that is a blue wave. Leftists are really bad people.

JoMa


16 posted on 11/21/2018 2:25:15 AM PST by joma89
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Once you include the 134,000,000 Democrat votes in Broward County then Maddow is absolutely right.


17 posted on 11/21/2018 8:43:45 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: dinodino

lol. I don’t get her/his appeal at all. For that matter, as dense as CNN is, what kind of idiot do you have to be to watch MSNBC?


18 posted on 11/21/2018 11:22:50 AM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Sam Gamgee

The Demonic-rats did not win the vote as much as it won the recount.

If this is not addressed there will be no valid elections in the future.


19 posted on 12/02/2018 5:20:44 PM PST by CoastWatcher
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