Americans actually elected a Democratic House of Representatives in 2012
House Democrats out-earned their Republican counterparts by 1.17 million votes. Read another way, Democrats won 50.59 percent of the two-party vote. Still, they won just 46.21 percent of seats, leaving the Republicans with 234 seats and Democrats with 201.
Source: "Steny Hoyer: House Democrats won majority of 2012 popular vote" By Katie Sanders - Politifact - Tuesday, February 19th, 2013




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