American democracy dodged a bullet with the Democrats’ historic midterm election results. In the post-war era, there have been only three elections where the president’s party lost ten or less House seats while also not losing a Senate seat — 1962, 1998, and 2002. It is also the first time in the post-war era that the president’s party posted a gain in gubernatorial posts and had every incumbent Senator re-elected in its first midterm election. Democrats also made midterm history for a party in power by flipping four state legislative chambers. Republican anti-democracy election subverters were defeated in elections for critical positions across the country. GOP election subverter candidates for secretary of state in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas, Michigan, and Minnesota all lost, as did GOP election subverter candidates for governor in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Republican election subverter Senate candidates also lost in Arizona, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania. Supporters of the right to healthcare that includes abortion won every ballot initiative in the five states — Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont, Montana, and California — where that was on the ballot.
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