How Democrats Avoided a Red Wave

Ron Brownstein: “Republicans did not win those economically pessimistic voters by quite as big a margin as midterm precedents had suggested. Usually, the party out of power has dominated voters with those views: Democrats, for instance, in 2018 won about 85 percent of those who described the economy as either not so good or poor.”

“This year, Republicans slightly exceeded that result among those who called the economy ‘poor,’ the most negative designation. But among those who gave the equivocal verdict of ‘not so good,’ Republicans won only 62 percent, way down from the Democrats’ total four years ago.”