In this year’s Senate elections, Democrats won over 2 million more votes than Republicans but still lost their majority. So much for democracy.
The Senate is famously biased toward the GOP, and with less ticket-splitting these days, that leaves Democrats with quite the hole to climb out of.
But there is a ladder back to the majority, even if it’s a tall one.
Democrats have performed well in the past two midterm elections, riding a blue wave to a net gain of 40 House seats in 2018 and flipping one Senate seat in 2022, a midterm they were expected to lose decisively. In 2018, Democrats lost four Senate seats while gaining two, but all the losses were in red states, like North Dakota (!) and Indiana (!!).
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