Has anyone got the overall numbers of Republican versus Democratic voters nationwide?

[XemaSab]

House, senate, governor?

Were the races close, or were they blowouts?

[XemaSab]

1. And says my mom:

"I wanna know how many counties are IGNORANT like Shasta County full of IGNORANT voters because they've killed our schools and it's an IGNORANT population who votes."

Not a fan of the Republicans, my mom. :D

[EFerrari]

2. I'd like to know, too. There were a lot of claims being made

about the turnout this round.

[leftstreet]

3. kick for answers

[Common Sense Party]

4. I doubt they're done tabulating the whole country yet.

I Googled and kept getting this story over and over:

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=13438892

Doesn't really give many answers. Voter turnout was 42%, up a little bit from 2006.

[Common Sense Party]

5. Another story here:

http://socialcapital.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/2010-voter-turnout-up-but-not-for-youth-and%C2%A0blacks/

[glinda]

9. So less than half of the Country voted and only a bit more than half of that group

claim a total mandate on the whole Country?

[CBHagman]

10. We've seen this movie before.

Michael Moore pointed out in one of his books (I think it might have been Downsize This!) that the GOP takeover of both houses in 1994 was down to so many thousand votes here and there. Remember, too, that many of the Class of '94 were gone within a few years (Someone did a book on that subject too).

But the media loves to jump rapidly from poll numbers to intoning about What It All Means. And even in cases where the GOP didn't win (e.g., majority status in the Senate), it still demands that attention must be paid. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's remarks at the Heritage Foundation yesterday were basically a series of threats and demands -- arrogant as the day as long. I'm interested to see how the media spins it, because, again, he's minority leader and talking as though he was just elected majority leader.

[CBHagman]

6. Some tools to work with...

First of all, not all races are decided yet, so no one's got a final tally.

Secondly, you have to go down to the individual races to see which were won by razor-sharp margins or by a landslide (Sorry to mix metaphors).

For starters, the Senate map from The New York Times. Pass cursor over particular states for results.

You can also click House, Governor, State Results.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2010/results/senate

You really have to look at the individual states and races. For example, here in Maryland, my senator and congressman, both Democrats, were easily reelected, as was the (Democratic) governor. In fact a great many incumbents were reelected, with Frank Kratovil (D) being the sole exception among the House members.

Other states' statistics tell a different story.

As for party affiliation, the figures I've been hearing for years is that slightly more than a third of Americans identify themselves as Democrats, roughly a third as Republicans, and less than a third as independents. Rasmussen reported as much this week.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends

[Emillereid]

7. I've been looking at the senate and house races - but as of yesterday some

were not complete. At first pass it appears that at the senate level we polled much better -- partly because of New York and California. I don't think I've ever felt so disenfranchised as comparing the numbers cast in California or New York for one senator versus states like Montana or Wyoming.

Looking at the House races, some were blow-outs, but many were not -- I keep wishing that someone like Nate Silver would do this work -- I started it and then realized how big it is -- someone who already has these numbers in a spreadsheet could do it in seconds. Besides I've been waiting for the final tallies.

[XemaSab]

8. I just cherry-picked the races we lost

from the New York Times website.

It looks like some healthy money in a few of those races could have helped out. :(