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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by remarkEon on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:32PM (#24784639)
They did well in the House, but lost seats in the Senate. Midterm elections are an imperfect signal, like you're suggesting, but it's not true that the democrats won a landslide or something in 2018.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by sdenton4 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:46PM (#24784705)
The Senate map for a given year can tilt towards one party or another; 2018 was a structurally bad year for the Senate Dems.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/democrats-horrible-2018...

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by remarkEon on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @11:52PM (#24784746)
Right, this is a good data point in favor of the argument that it's unwise to extrapolate too much from midterm races for the general.
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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by UncleMeat on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:55AM (#24787609)
No. It is a good datapoint that one should consider the seats in play when making claims about the senate. The map this time is much less unfavorable for the Democrats.
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