“But what about Republican gains in Congress? Here, the argument for a mandate is equally dubious. Tracking polls that looked at which congressional party voters preferred showed consistently that average voters favored the Democrats. In fact, this year Democrats led every one of the final ten daily preelection tracking polls conducted by Rasmussen Reports–by an average margin of between two and three points.” So I guess it doesn’t matter that more people actually, you know, voted for Republican members of the House.