Chock up another one for the Dems!

Look down at the bright blue district along the Rio Grande and you can see Ciro Rodriguez's astonishing victory last night.

From CNN:


The run-off win that sent incumbent Henry Bonilla down in flames gave the Democratic Party another huge win and a larger margin in the House than the Republicans have had in pver fifty years, including the so-called Gringrich Revolution of 1994. Eat your heart out Newt, that revolution is six feet under now.

Check this article out by BriVT from Daily Kos:

Now, the numbers ... the Democrats, after Ciro's surprise thumpin' of Bonilla last night, now have 233 seats in the House. After the 1994 election, the GOP had 230, which drifted down before rebounding some in the last couple years and peaking after the Texas redistricting in the 232 they had last Congress. But the Democrats overcame all that redistricting shenanigans to post a larger majority than the Republicans had during all that time of the "Republican Revolution."

In fact, since the Great Depression ended the 19th Century's political map in this country, the GOP has had as many as 233 seats exactly once, when they had 246 in that 1947-8 session.

And it could get worse for Republicans. They won, iirc, 14 of the 23 seats that were within 2 points last election. Plus, the big takeaway from yesterday's election is that Hispanics are truly turning away from the GOP in droves.

The win has been attributed to Bonilla supporting GOP efforts to build a giant fence across the border, resulting in the Latino vote going heavily for the soon to be democratic freshman Ciro Rodriguez. Hispanic Business has more on this particular difference between the candidates.

Congratulations to Ciro and goodluck in the 110th Congress next year!