This guy has no clue apparently. The house is elected by popular vote in each District represented.
How could they win the popular vote but lose the house?
What a dim wit.
I think he means we should add up all votes from all 435 House elections, by party, to see which party gets more votes. But as noted , such an exercise is meaningless.
Unless he is really stupid (a strong possibility) he probably means the grand total of votes around everywhere including CA and NY will add up to more for the total Dem candidates votes cast than the winning total votes that elected the GOP ones.
Which does not matter at all. A 1,000 vote victory in the Midwest counts as one member of the House and a 400,000 vote margin for a CA candidate who won also counts as one member.
He’s butt hurt because their national generic polls arent going to result in a blue wave
Easy.
In Democrat districts, they win big. Think 90%.
In Republican Districts, they lose small. Think 48%.
if roughly the same number of districts, they could get overall a larger number of votes, but lose the majority of seats.
Simple - they think their huge overvote in California and New York entitles them to make national policy regardless of how many districts they lose in Utah and Alabama.
They only think of numbers not the Constitution.they think all the votes should be added up and seats assigned proportionately. So is Gerry Nadler wins his district by 110,000 votes that is worth more than say Devin Nunes winning his by 2,000 votes. They are not stupid. They understand that with minorities, big cities, protected classes returnin 9 to 1 in favor of the Dems they will almost always have more votes. But that’s why the Founders designed the Constitution. These people DO WANT TO ABOLISH IT.
Because the House of Representatives is not divided up on a straight pro rata share of the population. There are 5 states that have one rep. Also seats are apportioned by population not of citizens. So they house does not reflect a true majority vote of the underlying population as measured by the Census.
That aside, what this loon mens is add up all the vote nation wide and calculate who won the majority of them. That majority may nt align with the majority of wins in state races. If two states each have 500,000 votes and one rep and one states gives 80% to the Dems and the other State gives 51% to Pubs then there is one Dem and one Pub rep elected. But the total two state vote count is 655,000/1,000,000 for the Dems and 245,000/1,000,000 giving the Dems the “popular” vote count but only 1/2 of the reps.
That example is good extended to all states.
“This guy has no clue apparently. The house is elected by popular vote in each District represented.
How could they win the popular vote but lose the house?”
You have no clue.
If the win one district by 100,000 votes and lose all the others by one vote they would have only one seat but a big margin in total votes....