Nov 10, 2016 ... Republicans kept Senate majority, though many more people voted for  Democratic candidates. ... Donald Trump's success on election night helped  Republicans win control of the House and Senate down the ticket. USA TODAY  NETWORK. The White House may not be the only institution in Washington ...
Nov 22, 2016 ... More Americans voted for Hillary Clinton than for Donald Trump. More Americans  voted for Democratic Senate candidates than for Republican Senate candidates.  So why aren't Democrats acting like it? Why aren't they trying to force  Republicans, the media, and the emergent Trump White House to act like ...
Nov 9, 2012 ... There's only what a president is able to get done with the Congress the American  people gave him. NBC/Meet the Press ... but the tally isn't likely to flip. In most  states where Republicans controlled redistricting, the Democrats' share of House  seats was far beneath their share of the presidential vote. (Dylan ...
Nov 10, 2012 ... Did that many people split their vote? It turns out the ... Indeed, more than half-a- million more Americans voted for Democratic House candidates than for  Republicans House candidates. ... This answer lies in the 2010 election, in which  Republicans won control of a substantial majority of state governments.
Nov 9, 2012 ... Despite losing the popular vote, Republicans are set to have their second- biggest House majority in 60 years and their third-biggest since the Great  Depression.
The majority of (the American people) voted for a Democratic House.