resonated with a broad cross section of the country, go back to 1992, generation ago, ross perot, independent got about 20% of the vote running as an independent that year. there s been a lot of talk in the years since he swung the election away from bush to clinton. not a lot of evidence to that. of course, ralph nader in 2000, green party candidate, he had 93,000 votes in the state of florida. final victory margin for george w. bush in florida was just 537 votes. we had been talking about that one for a generation or so since then i think that s one of the reasons every time now you get a third party candidate who potentially steps into the mix, everybody s mind goes back to 2000 and they think of that extraordinarily close race in florida. they think of nader. for that matter they think of pat buchanan pat buchanan was also there and that butterfly ballot may have had a factor i think 2001 created this
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conditions, madison. i mean, the president and so many republicans have come forward saying, hey, we don t support obamacare because of the economic detriment but we do support protecting preexisting conditions, we don t want it to be broken because people want for the sake of saving obama, everybody, democrats and republicans to come together on health care, on top of that, there s so many other issues here that i feel when we look back at midterms democrats could have done so much better and they did not. on average they produced less wins than the historic victory. 46 seats flipped in the house and nearly 10% victory margin is not a small victory, it s a large one. no one said it s a small victory. heather: we are talking about 2020, so we ve got a long time to debate it.
291 democrats will be there for sure. a gain of 43 seats the biggest majority in a decade. two races are still undecided. that was november 6th, 1974. 90 days after president nixon resigned. 60 days after gerald ford pardoned him. which set the stage for democrats to pull an epic route of republicans in those 1974 mid-terms elections. in the house that year, democrats won the biggest majority in a decade. the democratic margin of victory was more apparent in the popular vote. in 1974, democrats beat republicans by more than 8.7 million votes. a record that has stood for 44 years. but is now in danger of being shattered because as the votes continue to roll in, more than two weeks after election day, democrats are now ahead of republicans by more than 8.6 million votes. just a hair behind that watergate era democratic victory
which set the stage for democrats to pull an epic route of republicans in those 1974 anymore midterm elections. in the house that year, democrats won the biggest majority in a decade. the democratic margin of victory was even more apparent in the popular vote. in 1974, democrats beat republicans by more than 8.7 million votes. a record that has stood for 44 years. but is now in danger of being shattered because as the votes continue to roll in, more than two weeks after election day, democrats are now ahead of republicans by more than 8.6 million votes. just a hair behind that watergate-era democratic victory margin. now new nbc news data shows democrats won 53.1% of all votes counted while republicans earned 45.2. so far democrats have a net gain of 38 house seats. that number can still go up. witness california s congressional district 21, which hillary clinton carried by more