The first key to understanding Tuesday’s elections is recognizing that it was a midterm cycle. The party controlling the White House typically loses seats in midterms. In recent decades, those losses have averaged 30 seats in the House and four seats in the Senate. So far this cycle, Democrats have lost a net of 12 seats in the House (fewer than the average) and eight seats in the Senate (an above-average loss).
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Mark Mellman (Mellman Group), The Hill