Big vote totals don't convert to wins for House Democrats

McLEAN, Va. (AP) " By almost any measure, Democrats crushed Republicans in Virginia's elections last week, sweeping all three statewide offices and knocking out more than a dozen incumbent GOP legislators.Add up the votes in all 100 House districts, and Democrats beat Republicans by a 10-point margin, 54 percent to 44 percent. That's an even wider margin than Democrat Ralph Northam's victory over Ed Gillespie in the gubernatorial race.By one critical measure, though, the GOP [...]


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