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Those 36 house seats with no opposition are part of safe seats for both parties. A total of 376 out of the 435 house seats are basically guaranteed for the party that now holds them to keep them. Safe seats, 178 Democratic, 198 Republican. You might as well not hold any election in those 376 districts as the outcome is well known in advance. We do have now 59 competitive seats to be determine by vote. This 59 is above the normal average for competitive seats. The historical average is 51, but if you deleted the 4 wave elections of 1994, 2010, 2006 and 2018, the normal average for any house election for competitive seats is 41. Think about that, in an average house election there are only 41 districts where your vote counts in determining who wins that district. The other 394 are just going through the motion of voting in a pre-determined outcome.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
