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Originally Posted by classicman
Thats one way to look at it. I thought there were a lot more R's who won than D's.
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There were only four races of any "national" interest.
There are no House or Senate elections in odd years unless there are open seats - in this case two open House seats. The Democrats won both, one in a district that had elected Republicans for 100+ consecutive years.
And NJ and VA were the only states with state-wide, gubernatorial elections. The Republicans won both.
Virginia, btw, is the only state where the governor is limited to one term, so there is never an incumbent running. The Republican was the next best thing to an incumbent. He was the sitting AG, who was elected state-wide in the previous election.