PoliticoFact: TRUE: Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years."

[riversedge]

whow. guess I knew this but these graphs are telling!!

🌊🌊🌊 #FlipItBlue #BlueWave2018 #VoteThemOUT


http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/15/fareed-zakaria/yes-democratic-party-nearly-its-weakest-point-cent/


Zakaria
"When you tally up their representation in Congress and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years."

— Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, June 10th, 2018 in in a monologue
True
Yes, the Democratic Party is at nearly its weakest point in a century

By John Kruzel on Friday, June 15th, 2018 at 9:46 a.m.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by congressional Democrats, speaks in Berryville, Va., on July 24, 2017, to unveil a new agenda. (AP/Cliff Owen)

While the Democratic Party held the White House for two terms during Barack Obama’s presidency, much of the country was turning a deeper shade of red.

Republicans made dramatic down-ballot gains over the past decade, a trend that may have been overlooked somewhat given Democratic control of the executive branch for most of this time. But as the party vies to recapture the House and Senate from the GOP in upcoming midterm elections, the roots of Democrats’ recent losses are being reexamined.

"Unless Democrats face up to this reality and devise a strategy to reverse this tidal wave of defeat, they might find themselves surprised one more time this November," said CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. "When you tally up their representation in Congress, state legislatures and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years."

This stat, from the June 10 broadcast of his CNN show, was depicted in a graphic showing each of the two major parties’ power shifts since 1920 in Congress, governorships and state legislatures.



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Our ruling

Zakaria said, "When you tally up their representation in Congress, state legislatures and governorships, the Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years."

Democrats wield less power than Republicans in each of these offices. In the 1920s, they had an even weaker standing relative to the GOP than they do today. But Zakaria hedged his bets by saying Democrats almost have their lowest representation in about 100 years — and the numbers appear to back him up.

We rate this True.

[ck4829]

1. It might be time to consider this government no longer legitimate.

[Rustynaerduwell]

2. In every national election since 1980

more Americans voted for a Democrat than for a Republican- every one. And yet Democrats have the lowest representation in modern history. We are not even a Representative Democracy anymore.

[braddy]

4. You need to reexamine your voting history.

[Rustynaerduwell]

7. I have.

More votes went to a Democrat than to a Republican in every election since 1980. The effect of gerrymandering and the fact that Blue states have larger populations than red states give more votes, but less representation in Congress to Democrats. Add to that, at least two times since then a Democrat lost the White House with more votes than his opponent. Easily verifiable facts.

[shraby]

3. What's telling here is extreme gerrymandering works.

[riversedge]

6. We sure know it happens in Wisconsin.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. The 20s Democratic Party was not anywhere close to the modern party...

[appalachiablue]

10. Right, but the Dem. Party then was more progressive than Republicans

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who took the House and Senate from Dems. in Wilson's last couple years. After that in the 1920s, we had 3 successive laissez faire GOP presidents: Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, with policies of 'more business in govt.' and 'less govt. in business.' That and other factors led to the historic 1929 financial crash and Great Depression that FDR and Democrats had to clean up and move the nation back to health and sanity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt



1920 Electoral vote results, Pres. Harding (R)



1932 Electoral vote results, Pres. Roosevelt (D)



1936 Electoral vote results, Pres. Roosevelt (D)



1940 Electoral vote results, Pres. Roosevelt (D)



1944 Electoral vote results, Pres. Roosevelt (D)

[Thomas Hurt]

11. the Democratic Party with rife with racists who populated the second Klan...

[appalachiablue]

12. The racist Dixiecrats were prominent but other Dems. worked for

progressive advances in labor, the economy and worker rights. They also dug the country out of 20-50% unemployment during the Depression, and then fought fascism in the Second World War. I would never have wanted the Republicans in charge with the way they ran the country in the late 19th c., the Roaring 20s and since Goldwater, Reagan, et al.

[JI7]

15. the bigoted democrats supported many of those things. they stopped supporting it once black people

and other minorites were going to benefit from those things.

[lagomorph777]

9. Agreed. No half-measures will work - this is an EMERGENCY.

As FDR handled a similar emergency, Dems have to be the pro-worker party, without equivocation. FDR was rewarded with successive re-elections until he died, and a powerful Dem Party for nearly half a century afterward.

[Dan]

13. Are we seeing the beginnings of

The second American Revolution? Against King POS Donald?

[SunSeeker]

14. The GOP gerrymandering has completely subverted our democracy. nt