thin margin. steve will be here soon. democrats have now as of this moment security 225 seats. republicans have 199. it's a democratic gain of 30 seats. but there are 11 outstanding races which have yet to be called. many analysts estimated the democratic gain will climb closer to 38 seats by the time all votes are counted. 38 seats. that would be a huge even historic shift. the move left was not isolated to a few dozen districts. according to the "new york times," at least 217 districts shifted to the left. the average move was 10 percentage points to the left this year. 53.7 million votes were cast for democratic house candidates compared to 47.6 million for republicans, a difference of more than 6 million votes and that edge will likely grow as votes continue to be counted on the west coast.