Nancy Pelosi thinks Democrats won the election… or something:
“Well, we did have 25 seats in play and we’ve won 13 or 14 of them. We’ve won a majority of those seats. We lost seven freshmen and we lost three—Bishop, Rahall and Barrow—fabulous people who won in tough districts over and over again. But remember what I said then, it’s like the Olympics, it’s a little bit on one side, it’ll be a fraction of a second, fraction of an inch. That’s how it came down. Of that 25, I think it’s 14 of them that we have won. There’s one that it’s a loss for us but it wasn’t an incumbent. It was Bruce Braley’s seat. So that’s another seat. But it wasn’t an incumbent, it was just that he didn’t win his own district. But in terms of people who are not coming back, it’s nine, no 10. It’s 10. It’s the three and then seven. Now, we’ll see what happens. They won 10, we won about 14 of them… Of course, no one likes to see their colleagues leave and you don’t want to lose but, of those 25 races, we won 14 and lost 10.”
For the record: the House started out with 233 Republicans, 199 Democrats, and 3 vacancies. So far, Republicans have 12 additional seats with 5 still undecided. If Republicans get 3 of those 5, they will have gained 15 seats and have the largest House majority since 1928.
