Interesting. One thing though. There was no one person that all of us were voting on. That matters. Maybe I live in a state that is red and I'm a democrat. I may not show up and vote these midterms.
Number 2. I have always called the Midterms, Republicans secret weapon. Because historically a lot of people only vote every 4 years, not 2.
Another thing. A lot of people are upset with inflation. You should have destroyed us. Thanks abortion. If not for abortion there would have been a red wave. Not because people love Republicans but because the encumbents always get blamed for a bad economy, even if not their fault.
So this is spin. But interesting. I didn't know this.
From your own article
Instead of suffering massive losses, Democrats lost a net of nine seats. It cost them the House majority, but at the same time made President Joe Biden appear strong. Presidents usually lose scores of seats in the House.
Democrats won substantially more votes than Republicans in 2012, when they reelected then-President Barack Obama, but Republicans kept the House majority.
Turnout was down in places like California, which featured statewide races that were not so hotly contested. The California Secretary of State’s office
pegs turnout at 50.8% of voters, far below the more than 64% turnout it reported in the last midterm in 2018,
Well there's your answer right there. Do you know how big California is?