Democrats took control of the house, now what?

[Louie]

Jumpin said:

Louie said:
I'd say it was business as usual. It's a normal midterm election outcome with the president's party losing votes. It was neither a huge win for the Republicans, as Trump tried to suggest on Twitter, nor a big democratic wave with dramatic losses for the incumbent's party. Pretty standard, actually.

It was the third biggest swing in half a century.

Oh, I didn't know that. It looked very typical to me compared to the midterms under Obama. I read FiveThirtyEight for data journalism and they also said the election was one "Without a cohesive narrative". I still think the election outcome was rather typical. Swings in general have gotten larger due to a more diverse society with more swing voters. It's the same in Germany, where I live: Forty years ago a swing of +3.5 points towards the social democrats was massive for them. Today, parties lose or gain around 10 points between elections regularly.