Final U.S. House Election Numbers

The final vote totals from the 435 races for the United States House of Representatives have been tallied, and the Democrats won a tremendous landslide:

Democratic Candidates
257 seats won
65,102,039
53.08%

Republican Candidates
178 seats won
52,181,175
42.55%

Third party, independent, and write-in candidates won the remaining share.

Barack Obama had some pretty impressive coat tails! When you look at all of the presidential, congressional, and senatorial races of the last 28 years, you have to go all the way back to 1984 to find such a landslide. Not even the Republican take-over in 1994 resulted in such an ass-kicking.

Yet the Republicans remain deaf to the mandate the American people handed President Obama and the Democratic Party. As they try to block the much needed change this country needs in order to put her fiscal house back in order, the GOP keep countering with the stale old policy proposals of yesterday - proposals, it would do them well to remember, that got us into this mess in the first place.