>>That said, there have been several recent elections where Dems got more votes for the House and still ended up with many fewer seats. I don't know the overall statistics, but in 2012 (I think; might have been 2010), here in PA, Dems got about a million more votes, but only 5 of 18 seats.
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>According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Pennsylvania,_2012 , in the popular vote the Democrats led by about 83,000 votes (not a million) or about 1.5%.
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>Every incumbent who ran, except for 1 Democrat, retained their seat.

Yeah, I remembered the numbers wrong. The point remains that Democrats got more votes and ended up with many fewer seats.

>If you want to talk about gerrymandering, that's a different discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redistricting_in_Pennsylvania#Maps_approved

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

Tamar